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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 174, NWS Grand Forks, ND

October 26, 1996Wadena County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 26, 1996, 6:15 PM CDT for Wadena County, Minnesota. It was in force for 15 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 26, 1996, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
Expired: Oct 26, 1996, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 15 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Whole counties

County Wadena County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 207 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 220 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 602 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 203 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 350 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Oct 26, 3:23 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 26, 3:23 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA
320 PM CDT SAT OCT 26 1996

18Z SFC AND NEPH ANALYSES SHOW AREA OF LOW PRESSURE CENTERED IN E SD
WITH MOSTLY IFR CONDITIONS ACROSS THE CWA. KMVX SHOWS LARGE AREA OF
PCPN ACROSS ALL EXCEPT PARTS OF WC CWA.  EXCEPTIONALLY STRONG SYSTEM
WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE NE THROUGH CWA OVERNIGHT.  TORNADO WATCH FOR
SOUTHEASTERN COUNTIES.  DEWPOINTS CONTINUE TO RISE INTO THE MID AND
UPPER 50S WITH STRONG WAA.  ONLY DVL HAS REMAINED COOLER AND
DRYER...KEEPING THEM IN WITH POSSIBILITY OF RAIN CHANGING TO SNOW LATER
TONIGHT.

FOR MN: ROX/TVF/HCO/BDE:  OCCASIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...MID TO
                          UPPER 30S...NE 15 TO 25 MPH BECOMING NW.
        BJI:              OCCASIONAL RAIN WITH A THUNDERSTORM
                          POSSIBLE...UPPER 30S TO LOWER 40S...NE
                          INCREASING TO 15 TO 25 MPH.
        FFM/DTL/PKD:      SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...LOWER 40S...BECMG
                          NE AND INCREASING TO 15 TO 25 MPH.
FOR ND:   DVL: PERIODS OF RAIN WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS THIS
               EVENING...NEAR 30...NE 20 TO 30 MPH.
          GFK: SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING...30 TO 35...
               N 20 TO 30 MPH.
          FAR: SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING...LOW TO MID
               30S...N 20 TO 30 MPH.

NG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 26, 4:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Otter Tail	26 min
Oct 26, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Otter Tail	36 min
Oct 26, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Wadena	40 min
Oct 26, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Hubbard	32 min
Oct 26, 6:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Hubbard	34 min
Oct 26, 3:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Ransom	28 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 1996 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.