Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 5, 1996Cass County, North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1996, 10:12 PM CDT for Cass County, North Dakota. It was in force for 33 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, 10:12 PM CDT (03:12 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1996, 10:45 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Cass County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:15 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 5, 10:28 PM CDTHail 0.75Mapleton, 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, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 243 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 1996-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 1996-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -17 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
2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-133 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2688 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 7:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFWadena43 min
Jun 5, 7:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFPolk38 min
Jun 5, 7:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBecker18 min
Jun 5, 7:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFWadena31 min
Jun 5, 8:07 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFPolk23 min
Jun 5, 8:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFPolk31 min
Jun 5, 9:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFPolk29 min
Jun 5, 10:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFClay32 min
Jun 5, 11:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFOtter Tail, Wilkin36 min
Jun 6, 12:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFOtter Tail14 min
Jun 6, 1:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFOtter Tail32 min
Jun 5, 8:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFGriggs28 min
Jun 5, 9:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFCass46 min
Jun 5, 10:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFTraill26 min

Nearby

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