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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 9, 1992, 4:56 PM CDT for Clay County, Minnesota; Cass County, North Dakota. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 9, 1992, 4:56 PM CDT (21:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 1992, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clay County, MN, Cass County, ND
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 292 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 916 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFAR 092158 TORFAR MNC027-NDC017-000-092230- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FARGO ND 456 PM CDT THU JUL 9 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FARGO HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA ...NORTHERN CLAY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA ...EASTERN CASS COUNTY...FARGO-MOORHEAD AREA AT 455 PM A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS OBSERVED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FARGO 10 MILES NORTH-NORTHWEST OF FARGO...IN THE HARWOOD AREA. THIS FUNNEL CLOUD WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. EWENS
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 1:14 PM CDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before
NDZ012-013-015-016-017-091900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FARGO ND 113 PM CDT THU JUL 9 1992 ..STRONG THUNDERSTORMS RAPIDLY DEVELOPING OVER NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA... AT 105 PM...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER PARTS OF NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS CURRENTLY LOCATED 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DEVILS LAKE. THIS STORM IS LIKELY TO BE PRODUCING FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SOME SMALL HAIL. MOVEMENT IS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS ACROSS NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. WELVAERT
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 1:47 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before
NDZ012-013-015-016-017-MNZ001-006-007-010-092000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FARGO ND 145 PM CDT THU JUL 9 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA... AT 130 PM...RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS AND SOME SMALL HAIL...OVER PARTS OF NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA. THIS AREA WAS 120 MILES WIDE AND EXTENDED FROM 40 MILES NORTH OF DEVILS LAKE...EASTWARD TO NEAR BEMIDJI. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA...ONE WAS 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF DEVILS LAKE NEAR EDMORE...AND ANOTHER WAS 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DEVILS LAKE NEAR WARWICK. THESE STORMS WERE LIKELY TO BE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND SOME SMALL HAIL. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS ACROSS THE REGION SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS...AND BE PREPAREDA TO TAKE COVER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO STATIONS...AS WELL AS NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS. WELVAERT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 2:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Mahnomen | 68 min |
| Jul 9, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clay | 60 min |
| Jul 9, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Clay | 64 min |
| Jul 9, 2:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Griggs, Nelson | 53 min |
| Jul 9, 2:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Nelson | 41 min |
| Jul 9, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Griggs, Steele | 62 min |
| Jul 9, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Steele | 60 min |
| Jul 9, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cass, Traill | 55 min |
| Jul 9, 4:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Cass | 27 min |
| Jul 9, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Traill | 68 min |
| Jul 9, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cass | 47 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.