Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Grand Forks, ND

May 31, 1996Benson County, Eddy County, North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1996, 6:13 PM CDT for Benson County, Eddy County, North Dakota. It was in force for 32 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
May 31, 1996, 6:13 PM CDT (23:13 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 1996, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Whole counties

Counties Benson County, ND, Eddy County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 172 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 1996-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 184 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 1996-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 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
184 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
574 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
205 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KFAR 312319 COR
SVRFAR
NDC005-027-312345-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED...CORRECTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA ND
613 PM CDT FRI MAY 31 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA

   ...SOUTHEASTERN BENSON COUNTY...EDDY COUNTY

AT 610 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM SHEYENNE TO NEW ROCKFORD...OR 25 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF DEVILS LAKE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THESE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH FORT TOTTEN AND WARWICK BY 630 PM CDT.

PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE COVER.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 5:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFEddy34 min
May 31, 6:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBarnes, Ransom37 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 1996Every 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.