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Freeze Warning 2, NWS Grand Forks, ND

October 6, 20256 counties in North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this freeze warning at Oct 6, 2025, 1:35 PM CDT for 6 counties in North Dakota. It took effect at Oct 7, 2025, 12:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 6, 2025, 1:35 PM CDT (18:35 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 7, 2025, 12:00 AM CDT
Expired: Oct 7, 2025, 9:00 AM CDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND

Counties Benson County, ND, Cavalier County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Towner County, ND, Walsh County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:33 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

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 380 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1051 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this freeze 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 freeze warning went out at Oct 5, 6:53 PM CDT, 18 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 5, 6:53 PM CDT, 18 hours 42 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 6, 1:35 PM CDT	Frost Advisory	FGF	Beltrami, Clearwater, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen, Marshall and 5 more	19 hr
Oct 6, 1:35 PM CDT	Freeze Watch	FGF	Becker, Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, Kittson, Lake of the Woods and 9 more	13 hr

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.