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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Grand Forks, ND

August 8, 1995Ransom County, North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 1995, 7:19 PM CDT for Ransom County, North Dakota. It was in force for 36 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 8, 1995, 7:19 PM CDT (00:19 UTC)
Expired: Aug 8, 1995, 7:55 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Whole counties

County Ransom County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 182 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: 3505 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -124 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1234 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 170 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.1
Supercell composite: -2.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFAR 090019 RRA
SVRFAR
NDC017-073-077-090115-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FARGO ND
719 PM CDT TUE AUG 8 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE EAST CENTRAL PART OF NORTH DAKOTA
      CASS...THE CITIES OF FARGO/MOORHEAD...

   IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF NORTH DAKOTA
      EASTERN RANSOM...NORTHERN RICHLAND...

AT 710 PM CDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PUSHING INTO EXTREME
WESTERN CASS COUNTY AND WERE ALSO OVER CENTRAL RANSOM COUNTIES OF
SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING ARE BUFFALO...HUNTER...ARTHUR
CASSELTON...KINDRED...WEST FARGO AND FARGO/MOORHEAD.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY TO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.  IF YOU SPOT A FUNNEL OR A
TORNADO YOU SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A REINFORCED BUILDING.

SPIES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 8, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Cass, Richland	56 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.