Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1996, 11:07 PM CDT for Ramsey County, Walsh County, North Dakota. It was in force for 38 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 1996, 11:07 PM CDT (04:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1996, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ramsey County, ND, Walsh County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 11:10 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Lawton, ND |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 254 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 317 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 647 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 296 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 422 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFAR 170414 COR SVRFAR NDC071-099-170445- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED...CORRECTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA ND 1107 PM CDT THU MAY 16 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA ...EASTERN RAMSEY COUNTY...WESTERN WALSH COUNTY AT 1106 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR LAWTON...30 MILES NORTHEAST OF DEVILS LAKE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF ADAMS AND FAIRDALE REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. JB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 12:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Benson | 26 min |
| May 17, 1:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes | 29 min |
| May 17, 1:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes, Ransom | 31 min |
| May 17, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Sargent | 28 min |
| May 17, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Sargent | 24 min |
| May 17, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Sargent | 36 min |
| May 17, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom, Richland | 29 min |
| May 17, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Richland | 27 min |
| May 17, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Richland | 29 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.