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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 5, 1996Walsh County, North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 1996, 6:39 PM CDT for Walsh County, North Dakota. It was in force for 36 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 5, 1996, 6:39 PM CDT (23:39 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1996, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Walsh County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:39 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 286 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 1996-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 587 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 1996-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 189 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
587 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-160 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1113 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
189 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
226 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KFAR 052340
TORFAR
NDC099-060015-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA ND
639 PM CDT WED JUN 5 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA
 
   ...WESTERN WALSH COUNTY
 
AT 640 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED SOUTHEAST OF LANGDON MOVING TO
THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE ADAMS
AND FAIRDALE.
 
 
 
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 AN 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 3:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFGrand Forks46 min
Jun 5, 4:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFGrand Forks32 min
Jun 5, 5:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFSteele25 min
Jun 5, 6:11 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFTraill34 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.