Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Grand Forks, ND

August 8, 1995Cass County, Richland County, North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 1995, 7:19 PM CDT for Cass County, Richland County, North Dakota. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 8, 1995, 7:19 PM CDT (00:19 UTC)
Expired
Aug 8, 1995, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Whole counties

Counties Cass County, ND, Richland County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 214 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 1995-08-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3505 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 1995-08-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 73 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
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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 7:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFRansom36 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.