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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Grand Forks, ND

May 31, 1996Richland County, North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1996, 8:46 PM CDT for Richland County, North Dakota. It was in force for 19 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 31, 1996, 8:46 PM CDT (01:46 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 1996, 9:05 PM CDT
In force: 19 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Whole counties

County Richland County, ND

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 31, 8:51 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Hankinson, 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

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 189 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFAR 010148
SVRFAR
NDC077-010205-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA ND
846 PM CDT FRI MAY 31 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  905 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA
 
   ...SOUTHERN RICHLAND COUNTY
 
AT 845 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM SOUTH OF HANKINSON...OR 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WAHPETON.
THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL APPROACH FAIRMOUNT BY
855 PM CDT.
 
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, 36 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

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 7:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Sargent	27 min
May 31, 7:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Richland, Sargent	33 min
May 31, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Richland	30 min
May 31, 8:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Richland	35 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.