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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Grand Forks, ND

August 2, 1995Roseau County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 1995, 9:26 PM CDT for Roseau County, Minnesota. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 2, 1995, 9:26 PM CDT (02:26 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 1995, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Whole counties

County Roseau County, MN

The nearest sounding before it

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 186 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: 307 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -293 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1452 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 133 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KINL 030226 RRA
SVRINL
MNC135-030330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INTERNATIONAL FALLS MN
926 PM CDT WED AUG 2 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INTERNATIONAL FALLS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA
 
   ...SOUTHWESTERN ROSEAU COUNTY
 
AT 925 PM CDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 20 MILES WEST OF
GREENBUSH...OR 60 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WARROAD. THIS STORM IS MOVING
EAST AT 35 MPH. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE GREENBUSH...
BADGER...AND STRATHCONA.
 
THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED ONE INCH HAIL OVER KITTSON COUNTY...
AND LARGE HAIL WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE MAIN THREAT OF THIS STORM.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PTASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
 
 
NNNN

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, Aug 2, 8:13 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FARGO ND
815 PM CDT WED AUG 2 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0613 PM    HOOPLE                    ND   PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL
08/02/95   WALSH                          REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT

0615 PM    HOOPLE                    ND   PEA SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
08/02/95   WALSH                          A COOPERATIVE OBSERVER

0630 PM    HALLOCK                   MN   FUNNEL CLOUD AND A BRIEF
08/02/95   KITTSON                        TORNADO TOUCHDOWN JUST NORTH
                                          OF HALLOCK

0703 PM    DRAYTON                   ND   COOPERATIVE OBSERVER REPORTS
08/02/95   PEMBINA                        PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL IN
                                          DRAYTON AND A WIND GUST TO
                                          45 MPH

0720 PM    ROBBIN                    MN   PEA SIZE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN
           KITTSON                        REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT

0728 PM    KENNEDY                   MN   PEA SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY A
08/02/95   KITTSON                        COOPERATIVE OBSERVER

0737 PM    DRAYTON                   ND   COOPERATIVE OBSERVER REPORTED
08/02/95   PEMBINA                        A WIND GUST OF 46 MPH AND
                                          1.10 INCHES OF RAIN IN ONE
                                          HOUR

GODON

Local storm report, Aug 2, 8:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FARGO ND
815 PM CDT WED AUG 2 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0613 PM    HOOPLE                    ND   PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL
08/02/95   WALSH                          REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT

0615 PM    HOOPLE                    ND   PEA SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
08/02/95   WALSH                          A COOPERATIVE OBSERVER

0630 PM    HALLOCK                   MN   FUNNEL CLOUD AND A BRIEF
08/02/95   KITTSON                        TORNADO TOUCHDOWN JUST NORTH
                                          OF HALLOCK

0703 PM    DRAYTON                   ND   COOPERATIVE OBSERVER REPORTS
08/02/95   PEMBINA                        PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL IN
                                          DRAYTON AND A WIND GUST TO
                                          45 MPH

0720 PM    ROBBIN                    MN   PEA SIZE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN
           KITTSON                        REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT

0728 PM    KENNEDY                   MN   PEA SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY A
08/02/95   KITTSON                        COOPERATIVE OBSERVER

0737 PM    DRAYTON                   ND   COOPERATIVE OBSERVER REPORTED
08/02/95   PEMBINA                        A WIND GUST OF 46 MPH AND
                                          1.10 INCHES OF RAIN IN ONE
                                          HOUR

GODON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 2, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Roseau	38 min
Aug 2, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Kittson	62 min
Aug 2, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Marshall	61 min
Aug 2, 10:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Polk	69 min
Aug 2, 10:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Pennington, Red Lake	65 min
Aug 2, 10:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Marshall	65 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.