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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Grand Forks, ND

May 31, 1996Wilkin County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1996, 8:42 PM CDT for Wilkin County, Minnesota. It was in force for 38 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, 8:42 PM CDT (01:42 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 1996, 9:20 PM CDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Wilkin County, MN

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 221 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 00:00Z on 1996-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2345 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1996-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 257 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
2345 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
770 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
257 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
340 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
3.5
Supercell composite
16.6

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFAR 010143
SVRFAR
MNC167-010220-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA ND
842 PM CDT FRI MAY 31 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  920 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
 
   ...WILKIN COUNTY
 
AT 839 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
LOCATED FROM WALCOTT TO HANKINSON...OR 25 TO 55 MILES SOUTH OF FARGO...
MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO
BRECKENRIDGE BY 850 PM CDT. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING
LARGE HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
 
REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
 
&&
 
NG

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.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 31, 8:10 PM CDT, 32 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA
805 PM CDT FRI MAY 31 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0650 PM    LITCHVILLE                ND   FUNNEL CLOUD
05/31/96   BARNES

0725 PM    HAVANA                    ND   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/31/96   SARGENT

0806 PM    LIDGERWOOD                ND   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/31/96   RICHLAND

0808 PM    LIDGERWOOD                ND   FUNNEL CLOUD
05/31/96

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 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.