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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2024, 2:12 AM CDT for 4 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 48 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 16, 2024, 2:12 AM CDT (07:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2024, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Benson County, ND, Cavalier County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Towner County, ND
The radar
The Minot AFB radar (KMBX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 2002 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1744 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
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.
NWS Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 15, 11:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 11:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 16, 1:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Benson, Cavalier, Ramsey, Towner | 52 min |
| Jun 16, 2:51 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Benson, Cavalier, Eddy, Ramsey | 39 min |
| Jun 16, 4:02 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Barnes, Griggs | 58 min |
| Jun 16, 4:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes, Griggs, Steele | 45 min |
| Jun 16, 4:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes, Cass, Steele, Traill | 53 min |
| Jun 16, 5:08 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Cass | 37 min |
| Jun 16, 5:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Steele, Traill | 33 min |
| Jun 16, 5:27 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Traill | 33 min |
| Jun 16, 5:40 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Traill | 50 min |
| Jun 16, 5:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Cass | 46 min |
| Jun 16, 5:59 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Cass | 31 min |
| Jun 16, 6:05 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | FGF | Benson, Cavalier, Ramsey, Towner | 13 hr |
| Jun 16, 4:37 PM CDT | Flood Watch | FGF | Barnes, Benson, Cass, Cavalier, Eddy, Grand Forks and 10 more | 38 hr |
| Jun 16, 6:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Clay | 26 min |
| Jun 16, 6:37 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Pennington, Polk, Red Lake | 23 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.