Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1993, 4:40 PM CDT for Beltrami County, Minnesota. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 27, 1993, 4:40 PM CDT (21:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 1993, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Beltrami County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 540 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 27, 2:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
NDZ012-013-014-015-016-017-018-MNZ001-006-007-010-011-013-272045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR COLD AIR FUNNELS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FARGO ND 245 PM CDT TUE JULY 27 1993 ...COLD AIR FUNNELS REPORTED OVER JUST NORTHWEST OF LAKOTA IN NELSON COUNTY AND IN THE MCCANNA AREA OF WESTERN GRAND FORKS COUNTY... AT 230 PM CDT REPORTS OF COLD AIR FUNNELS WERE RECEIVED AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN FARGO NORTH DAKOTA. THESE COLD AIR FUNNELS WERE REPORTED BY THE LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES. THEY ARE CURRENTLY WATCHING THESE COLD AIR FUNNELS AND WARNINGS WILL BE ISSUED IF NECESSARY. COLD AIR FUNNELS ARE NOT ASSOCIATED WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AS ARE THE TYPE OF FUNNEL CLOUD THAT PRODUCES A TORNADO. COLD AIR FUNNELS ARE FORMED BY THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS WHEN UNIQUE METEOROLOGICAL CIRCUMSTANCES ARE MET. BENNETT
Local storm report, Jul 27, 3:44 PM CDT, 56 minutes before
STORM REPORTS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FARGO ND 340 PM CDT TUE JUL 27 1993 TIME EVENT 335PM TORNADO TOUCHDOWN JUST EAST OF MINTO ND...ABOUT 30 MILES NORTH OF GRAND FORKS. REPORTED BY WALSH COUNPTY SHERIFF. NO DAMAGE ESTIMATE REPORTED. BENNETT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 3:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Kittson, Marshall | 67 min |
| Jul 27, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami | 61 min |
| Jul 27, 4:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Roseau | 64 min |
| Jul 27, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Kittson, Marshall | 62 min |
| Jul 27, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Roseau | 60 min |
| Jul 27, 3:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Walsh | 57 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993
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.