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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 20, 1995Cavalier County, North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 20, 1995, 6:53 PM CDT for Cavalier County, North Dakota. It was in force for 37 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 20, 1995, 6:53 PM CDT (23:53 UTC)
Expired
Jun 20, 1995, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Cavalier County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 278 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 1995-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1456 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 1995-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 52 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
1456 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-214 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1571 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-22 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 KFAR 202353
TORFAR
NDC019-210030-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FARGO ND
653 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY

   IN THE NORTHEAST PART OF NORTH DAKOTA
      CAVALIER

AT 648 PM CDT...THE CAVALIER COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED A TORNADO
TOUCH-DOWN 3 MILES WEST AND 1 MILE NORTH OF LANGDON.  THIS TORNADO
WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE IS IN
A BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...FIND SHELTER IN A CENTRAL INTERIOR
ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...
PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND PROTECT YOUR HEAD.
AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED
BUILDING.

ARMSTRONG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 5:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFCavalier25 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.