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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 21, 1995Cass County, North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 21, 1995, 6:11 PM CDT for Cass County, North Dakota. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 21, 1995, 6:11 PM CDT (23:11 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 1995, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Cass County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 243 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 12:00Z on 1995-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1383 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 12:00Z on 1995-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1383 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-139 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1585 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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
Jun 20, 8:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFSteele66 min
Jun 20, 8:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFGrand Forks56 min
Jun 21, 5:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFCass, Ransom59 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.