Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 118, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 1996, 10:54 PM CDT for Mower County, Minnesota. It was in force for 36 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
- Jul 1, 1996, 10:54 PM CDT (03:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 1996, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mower County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1619 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRST 020413 SVRRST MNC099-020430- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN 1054 PM CDT MON JUL 1 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ROCHESTER MN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA ...SOUTHERN MOWER COUNTY AT 1050PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF AUSTIN NEAR LYLE. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THE STORM SHOULD BE NEAR TAOPI BY 11PM...AND NEAR LE ROY BY 1115PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL... DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM. PEOPLE IN MOBILE HOMES SHOULD GO TO A STORM SHELTER. &
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, Jul 1, 7:25 PM CDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before
MNZ074-080>082-089-090-020045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 722 PM CDT MON JUL 1 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH CANCELLED FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA... THE TORNADO WATCH ISSUED LATE THIS AFTERNOON HAS BEEN CANCELLED ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. THE COUNTIES NO LONGER IN THE WATCH INCLUDE... BROWN...COTTONWOOD...JACKSON...MURRAY... NOBLES...AND WANTONWAN. THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT HAS MOVED TO THE EAST AND SOUTH OF THIS AREA. MARGRAF!
Local storm report, Jul 1, 9:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MINNESOTA
925 PM CDT MON JUL 01 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0710 PM CLARISSA MN .75 INCH HAIL
07/01/96 TODD
0735 PM 4 N LONG PRAIRIE MN WIND DAMAGE
07/01/96 TODD SIDING TORN OFF HOUSE.
3 INCH DIAMETER BRANCHES
DOWN.
0745 PM 5 NE LONG PRAIRIE MN .88 INCH HAIL
07/01/96 TODD
0805 PM 3 SE SWANVILLE MN 1.5 INCH HAIL
07/01/96 MORRISON HAIL COVERED GROUND
0900 PM 3 N ST CLOUD MN .75 INCH HAIL
07/01/96 STEARNSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Todd | 57 min |
| Jul 1, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 62 min |
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.