Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 21, 1996, 2:37 PM CDT for Marshall County, Minnesota. It was in force for 38 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
- Jul 21, 1996, 2:37 PM CDT (19:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 1996, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marshall County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:51 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 2:37 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Newfolden, 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 254 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 754 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 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 211938 TORFAR MNC089-212015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA ND 237 PM CDT SUN JUL 21 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA ...MARSHALL COUNTY AT 235 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED AT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF VIKING OR 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF GRAND FORKS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO BETWEEN VIKING AND NEW FOLDEN. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR UNDER STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. COVER YOURSELF WITH BLANKETS...PILLOWS OR CUSHIONS. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 3:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 38 min |
| Jul 21, 4:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Norman | 23 min |
| Jul 21, 1:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Kittson | 29 min |
| Jul 21, 1:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Kittson, Roseau | 54 min |
| Jul 21, 2:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 51 min |
| Jul 21, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker | 39 min |
| Jul 21, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Roseau | 39 min |
| Jul 21, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Mahnomen | 30 min |
| Jul 21, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Roseau | 26 min |
| Jul 21, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 34 min |
| Jul 21, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clearwater | 32 min |
| Jul 21, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami | 36 min |
| Jul 21, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 26 min |
| Jul 21, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 31 min |
| Jul 21, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami | 41 min |
| Jul 21, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clearwater | 39 min |
| Jul 21, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 43 min |
| Jul 21, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker | 25 min |
| Jul 21, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami | 34 min |
| Jul 21, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 29 min |
| Jul 21, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Wadena | 34 min |
Nearby
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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.