Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 25, 1996Beltrami County, Clearwater County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1996, 4:07 PM CDT for Beltrami County, Clearwater County, Minnesota. It was in force for 38 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 25, 1996, 4:07 PM CDT (21:07 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 1996, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Whole counties

Counties Beltrami County, MN, Clearwater County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 165 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:08 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 25, 4:28 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Shevlin, MN
Jun 25, 4:35 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Bemidji, 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 164 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1508 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 165 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFAR 252107
SVRFAR
MNC007-029-252145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA ND
407 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  445 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
 
   ...SOUTHERN BELTRAMI COUNTY
 
IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA
 
   ...SOUTHERN CLEARWATER COUNTY
 
AT 405 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BAGELY...25
MILES WEST OF BEMIDJI MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. DIME SIZED HAIL
WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM IN BAGELY AT 4 PM. SOME TOWNS IN THE
WARNING AREA INCLUDE SHEVLIN AlND PINEWOOD.
 
 
REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO
PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Beltrami	48 min
Jun 25, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Beltrami	32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 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.