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Winter Storm Warning 5, NWS Grand Forks, ND

November 24, 20256 counties in Minnesota; Ransom County, Richland County, Sargent County, North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this winter storm warning at Nov 24, 2025, 2:04 PM CST for 6 counties in Minnesota; Ransom County, Richland County, Sargent County, North Dakota. It took effect at Nov 25, 2025, 10:14 AM CST. It was in force for 14 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
Nov 24, 2025, 2:04 PM CST (20:04 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 25, 2025, 10:14 AM CST
Expired
Nov 26, 2025, 12:00 AM CST
In force
14 hr
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND

Counties Becker County, MN, Grant County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:03 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 243 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2025-11-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2025-11-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -10 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1803 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
15 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 winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Nov 24, 12:21 PM CST, 1 hour 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 24, 12:21 PM CST, 1 hour 43 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 24, 2:04 PM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryFGFBecker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Mahnomen and 6 more34 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Minnesota, 2025Winter Storm Warnings in North Dakota, 2025Every winter storm warning in 2025

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.