Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1996, 8:07 AM CDT for Anoka County, Chisago County, Isanti County, Minnesota. It was in force for 53 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
- May 17, 1996, 8:07 AM CDT (13:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 1996, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Anoka County, MN, Chisago County, MN, Isanti County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 489 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -424 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 512 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 304 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 369 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMSP 171309 SVRMSP MNC003-025-059-171400- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 807 AM CDT FRI MAY 17 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MINNEAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA ...NORTHEASTERN ANOKA COUNTY...CHISAGO COUNTY ...SOUTHEASTERN ISANTI COUNTY AT 810 AM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 20 MILES NORTH OF ST. PAUL MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF WYOMING...STACY...AND CHISAGO CITY. FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS ALSO EXPECTED. MONITOR YOUR RADIO OR TV... BUT DO NOT USE OTHER ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES. DO NOT USE THE PHONE. MBK
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 17, 5:37 AM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
MNZ004>096-172240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...MINNESOTA SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 537 AM CDT FRI MAY 17 1996 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS TARGETED SOUTH AND MUCH OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA FOR A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...WHILE THE REMAINDER OF NORTH MINNESOTA IS UNDER A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LOW PRESSURE OVER THE CENTRAL PLAINS REGION IS EXPECTED TO STRENGTHEN AND MOVE NORTHEAST TO NEAR FARGO NORTH DAKOTA BY EARLY THIS FRIDAY EVENING...BRINGING WARM...MOIST AND VERY UNSTABLE AIR NORTHWARD INTO MINNESOTA. THIS WILL LIKELY RESULT IN A SIGNIFICANT OUTBREAK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG WITH A FEW TORNADOES. MAKE AN EFFORT TO STAY ABREAST OF CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND MONITOR WEATHER FORECASTS FOR YOUR LOCAL AREA THROUGH YOUR NOAA RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE RADIO/TELEVISION STATION. SPRINGTIME SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAKS OFTEN FEATURE WIDESPREAD AND LONGER DURATION EPISODES OF DISTRUCTIVE WINDSTORMS AND THIS APPEARS TO BE THE SITUATION FOR MUCH OF MINNESOTA THIS FRIDAY. TOGSTAD
Special weather statement, May 17, 6:01 AM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
MNZ004>096-171205- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 600 AM CDT FRI MAY 17 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ISS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle | 53 min |
| May 17, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Stevens, Swift | 65 min |
| May 17, 6:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Stevens | 46 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996
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.