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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 25, 1996Beltrami County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1996, 4:27 PM CDT for Beltrami County, Minnesota. It was in force for 48 min. 3 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, 4:27 PM CDT (21:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 1996, 5:15 PM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Beltrami County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 185 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:31 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 25, 4:35 PM CDTHail 0.75Bemidji, MN
Jun 25, 5:10 PM CDTHail 0.75Thorhult, MN
Jun 25, 5:10 PM CDTHail 0.75Bemidji, 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 138 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 1996-06-25Temperature 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 1996-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 29 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
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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFAR 252128
SVRFAR
MNC007-252215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA ND
427 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
 
   ...NORTHERN BELTRAMI COUNTY
 
AT 4:25 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 35 MILES
EAST OF THIEF RIVER FALLS...13 MILES WEST OF PONEMAH. THIS STORM WAS
MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH.
 
THIS STORM WILL REACH PONEMAH AROUND 5:00 PM.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...MOVE INTO A STRONG BUILDING.
DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES AND STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 4:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBeltrami, Clearwater38 min
Jun 25, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBeltrami32 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.