Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 28, 1996, 4:48 PM CDT for Towner County, North Dakota. It was in force for 27 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
- Jul 28, 1996, 4:48 PM CDT (21:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 1996, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Towner County, ND
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 5:03 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Cando, ND | |
| Jul 28, 5:10 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Maza, ND | |
| Jul 28, 5:14 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Cando, ND |
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
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 239 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -240 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1075 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 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 282148 TORFAR NDC095-282215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA ND 448 PM CDT SUN JUL 28 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA ...SOUTHERN TOWNER COUNTY AT 545 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CANDO...OR 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF DEVILS LAKE...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PASS BETWEEN CANDO AND MEZA ON HIGHWAY 281 AT 505 PM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR UNDER STURDY FURNITURFE. 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. NG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Towner | 25 min |
| Jul 28, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Towner | 25 min |
| Jul 28, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Benson | 37 min |
| Jul 28, 5:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Benson | 33 min |
| Jul 28, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Ramsey | 29 min |
| Jul 28, 5:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Benson | 24 min |
| Jul 28, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Benson | 28 min |
| Jul 28, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Eddy | 43 min |
| Jul 28, 6:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Eddy | 33 min |
| Jul 28, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Eddy | 33 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.