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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Grand Forks, ND

July 22, 1994Kittson County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 1994, 8:27 PM CDT for Kittson County, Minnesota. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 22, 1994, 8:27 PM CDT (01:27 UTC)
Expired
Jul 22, 1994, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Kittson County, MN

The nearest sounding before it

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 257 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, International Fa, MN at 00:00Z on 1994-07-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, International Fa, MN at 00:00Z on 1994-07-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 12 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1529 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 22, 10:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFMarshall59 min
Jul 22, 9:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFWalsh25 min

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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.