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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Grand Forks, ND

August 22, 1995Beltrami County, Clearwater County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Aug 22, 1995, 7:59 PM CDT for Beltrami County, Clearwater County, Minnesota. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 22, 1995, 7:59 PM CDT (00:59 UTC)
Expired
Aug 22, 1995, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Whole counties

Counties Beltrami County, MN, Clearwater County, MN

The nearest sounding before it

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 164 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, International Fa, MN at 00:00Z on 1995-08-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 948 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, International Fa, MN at 00:00Z on 1995-08-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 249 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
948 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-146 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1126 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
249 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
597 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
16.4

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 22, 7:24 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFMarshall, Pennington36 min
Aug 22, 7:59 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFPennington, Polk, Red Lake61 min
Aug 22, 8:31 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFKoochiching44 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.