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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Grand Forks, ND

July 22, 1994Walsh County, North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 1994, 9:50 PM CDT for Walsh County, North Dakota. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 22, 1994, 9:50 PM CDT (02:50 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 1994, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Whole counties

County Walsh County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 327 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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

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

Local storm report, Jul 22, 8:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 22, 8:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FARGO ND
845 PM CDT FRI JUL 22 1994

TIME      EVENT
835  PM CDT     JUST WEST OF HALLOCK MINNESOTA IN KITTSON COUNTY PEA TO
                MARBLE SIZE HAIL COVERING THE GROUND.  VERY HEAVY RAIN.
                KITTSON COUNTY S. O.

840 PM CDT      HALLOCK MINNESOTA VERY HEAVY RAIN AND PEA TO MARBLE SIZE
                HAIL IN THE CITY.  KITTSON S. O.

BENNETT

Local storm report, Jul 22, 9:05 PM CDT, 45 minutes before

STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FARGO ND
905 PM CDT FRI JUL 22 1994

TIME            EVENT
835  PM CDT     AT JOLIETTE MINNESOTA D. O. T. SCALES STATION. 60 MPH
                WIND AND PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL UP TO ONE FOOT DEEP
                AROUND THE BUILDING.  KITTSON COUNTY S. O.  ALSO A REPORT
                THAT IN THE JOLIETTE AREA CROPS WERE TOTALLY WIPED OUT BY
                PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL COVERING THE GROUND.  JOLIETTE
                IS LOCATED ON THE MINNESOTA SIDE OF I-29 IN WESTERN
                KITTSON COUNTY.

BENNETT

Local storm report, Jul 22, 9:10 PM CDT, 40 minutes before

STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FARGO ND
905 PM CDT FRI JUL 22 1994

TIME            EVENT
835  PM CDT     AT JOLIETTE MINNESOTA D. O. T. SCALES STATION. 60 MPH
                WIND AND PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL UP TO ONE FOOT DEEP
                AROUND THE BUILDING.  KITTSON COUNTY S. O.  ALSO A REPORT
                THAT IN THE JOLIETTE AREA CROPS WERE TOTALLY WIPED OUT BY
                PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL COVERING THE GROUND.  JOLIETTE
                IS LOCATED ON THE MINNESOTA SIDE OF I-29 IN WESTERN
                KITTSON COUNTY.

BENNETT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 22, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Kittson	63 min
Jul 22, 10:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Marshall	59 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 1994 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994

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.