Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 109, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1996, 3:53 PM CDT for Dodge County, Minnesota. It was in force for 37 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1996, 3:53 PM CDT (20:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1996, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dodge County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 4:12 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | West Concord, MN |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 734 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1273 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRST 292054 SVRRST MNC039-292130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN 353 PM CDT SAT JUN 29 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ROCHESTER MN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA ...NORTHERN DODGE COUNTY AT 350PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NORTHEAST OF OWATONNA MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM SHOULD BE NEAR WEST CONCORD BY 4PM AND CONCORD BY 410PM. GSF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 2:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota | 29 min |
| Jun 29, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 65 min |
| Jun 29, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Steele | 45 min |
| Jun 29, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stevens | 27 min |
| Jun 29, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dodge, Olmsted | 30 min |
| Jun 29, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Todd | 42 min |
| Jun 29, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 57 min |
| Jun 29, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Fillmore, Houston | 41 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.