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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 25, 1996Becker County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1996, 10:03 PM CDT for Becker County, Minnesota. It was in force for 27 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 25, 1996, 10:03 PM CDT (03:03 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 1996, 10:30 PM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Becker County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:06 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.

The nearest sounding before it

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 254 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 00:00Z on 1996-06-26Temperature 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 00:00Z on 1996-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 96 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
1444 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
233 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 260304
SVRFAR
MNC005-260330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA ND
1003 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN BECKER COUNTY
 
AT 1002 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF WOLF LAKE...OR 30 MILES EAST OF DETROIT LAKES...MOVING EAST
AT 20 MPH. THE CITY OF MIDWAY IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO
PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
 
NG

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, 4 hours 42 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  BELTRAMI
Local storm report, Jun 25, 6:24 PM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA
625 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

510PM     THORHULT                MN      .75 INCH HAIL
06/25/96  BELTRAMI

530 PM    TURTLE RIVER            MN      .75 INCH HAIL
06/25/96  BELTRAMI

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 9:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFOtter Tail26 min
Jun 25, 9:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFOtter Tail30 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.