Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 5, 1996Grand Forks County, North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1996, 3:29 PM CDT for Grand Forks County, North Dakota. It was in force for 46 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: Jun 5, 1996, 3:29 PM CDT (20:29 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 1996, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Whole counties

County Grand Forks County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 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
Jun 5, 3:55 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Northwood, 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 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 276 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: 587 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -160 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1113 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 189 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 226 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFAR 052030
SVRFAR
NDC035-052115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA ND
329 PM CDT WED JUN 5 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA
 
   ...SOUTHERN GRAND FORKS COUNTY
 
AT 327 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST
OF NORTHWOOD OR 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GRAND FORKS MOVING EAST 25 MPH.
TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE NORTHWOOD AND KEMPTON.
 
 
REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADV`ANCE WARNING.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Grand Forks	32 min
Jun 5, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Steele	25 min
Jun 5, 6:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Traill	34 min
Jun 5, 6:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Walsh	36 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.