Tornado Warning 22, NWS Grand Forks, ND

Issued

Oct 26, 1996, 6:11 PM CDT (23:11 UTC)

Expired

Oct 26, 1996, 6:45 PM CDT

In force

34 min

Issued by

NWS Grand Forks, ND

Area

Whole counties

County Hubbard County, MN

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 187 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:12 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.

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.

000 
TTAA00 KFAR 262313 RRA
TORFAR
MNC057-262345-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA ND
611 PM CDT SAT OCT 26 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
 
   ...HUBBARD COUNTY
 
AT 610 PM CDT...SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTERS INDICATED A TORNADO LOCATED 4
MILES NORTH OR DORSET...OR 40 MILES SOUTH OF BEMIDJI...MOVING NORTHEAST 
 BIG SAND LAKE AND LAPORTE ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO
WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CURRENTLY IN EFFECT.
 
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.
 
NG
 
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NWS Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Oct 26, 3:23 PM CDT, 2 hours 48 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA
320 PM CDT SAT OCT 26 1996

18Z SFC AND NEPH ANALYSES SHOW AREA OF LOW PRESSURE CENTERED IN E SD
WITH MOSTLY IFR CONDITIONS ACROSS THE CWA. KMVX SHOWS LARGE AREA OF
PCPN ACROSS ALL EXCEPT PARTS OF WC CWA.  EXCEPTIONALLY STRONG SYSTEM
WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE NE THROUGH CWA OVERNIGHT.  TORNADO WATCH FOR
SOUTHEASTERN COUNTIES.  DEWPOINTS CONTINUE TO RISE INTO THE MID AND
UPPER 50S WITH STRONG WAA.  ONLY DVL HAS REMAINED COOLER AND
DRYER...KEEPING THEM IN WITH POSSIBILITY OF RAIN CHANGING TO SNOW LATER
TONIGHT.

FOR MN: ROX/TVF/HCO/BDE:  OCCASIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...MID TO
                          UPPER 30S...NE 15 TO 25 MPH BECOMING NW.
        BJI:              OCCASIONAL RAIN WITH A THUNDERSTORM
                          POSSIBLE...UPPER 30S TO LOWER 40S...NE
                          INCREASING TO 15 TO 25 MPH.
        FFM/DTL/PKD:      SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...LOWER 40S...BECMG
                          NE AND INCREASING TO 15 TO 25 MPH.
FOR ND:   DVL: PERIODS OF RAIN WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS THIS
               EVENING...NEAR 30...NE 20 TO 30 MPH.
          GFK: SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING...30 TO 35...
               N 20 TO 30 MPH.
          FAR: SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING...LOW TO MID
               30S...N 20 TO 30 MPH.

NG

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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.