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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1996, 6:08 PM CDT for Becker County, Minnesota. It was in force for 52 min. 2 reports 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, 6:08 PM CDT (23:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1996, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Becker County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:09 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, 6:32 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Tamerac Refuge, MN | |
| Jun 5, 6:52 PM CDT | Hail 1.5 | Detroit Lakes, MN |
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
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1581 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFAR 052310 SVRFAR MNC005-060000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA ND 608 PM CDT WED JUN 5 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA ...BECKER COUNTY AT 605 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES EAST CALLAWAY...OR 40 MILES EAST OF FARGO...MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE ROCHERT...SHELL LAKE...PONDSFORD...AND OSAGE. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO A.DVANCE WARNING. NG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clay | 42 min |
| Jun 5, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clay | 29 min |
| Jun 5, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker | 40 min |
| Jun 5, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Norman | 28 min |
| Jun 5, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Norman | 28 min |
| Jun 5, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker | 32 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.