Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1996, 5:28 PM CDT for Beltrami County, Minnesota. It was in force for 32 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 25, 1996, 5:28 PM CDT (22:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1996, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 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 22:30 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, 5:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Turtle River, 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, 10.5 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFAR 252228 SVRFAR MNC007-252300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA ND 528 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA ...SOUTHEAST BELTRAMI COUNTY AT 5:20 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF BEMIDJI...NEAR TURTLE RIVER. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL REACH BIG LAKE BY 5:35PM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...MOVE INTO A STRONG BUILDING. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 25, 5:21 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA
515 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
400PM BAGELY MN .75 INCH HAIL
06/25/96 CLEARWATER
428PM SHEVLIN MN .75 INCH HAIL
06/25/96 CLEARWATER
435PM 14 NW BEMIDJI MN .75 INCH HAIL
06/25/96 BELTRAMI
510PM 10 N BEMIDJI MN .75 INCH HAIL
06/25/96 BELTRAMIThe office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Clearwater | 38 min |
| Jun 25, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami | 48 min |
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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.