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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 5, 1996Norman County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1996, 6:32 PM CDT for Norman County, Minnesota. It was in force for 28 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
Jun 5, 1996, 6:32 PM CDT (23:32 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1996, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Norman County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 273 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, International Fa, MN at 12:00Z on 1996-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, International Fa, MN at 12:00Z on 1996-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -12 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
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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFAR 052333
SVRFAR
MNC107-060000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA ND
632 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
 
   ...NORMAN COUNTY
 
AT 632 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES WEST OF
ADA...OR 35 MILES NORTH OF FARGO...MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
THE CITY OF TWIN VALLEY IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
 
NG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 4:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFClay42 min
Jun 5, 4:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFClay29 min
Jun 5, 5:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBecker40 min
Jun 5, 6:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFNorman28 min
Jun 5, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBecker52 min
Jun 5, 6:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBecker32 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.