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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS Twin Cities, MN

July 27, 1996Faribault County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1996, 7:25 PM CDT for Faribault County, Minnesota. It was in force for 50 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 27, 1996, 7:25 PM CDT (00:25 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 1996, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

County Faribault County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:27 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

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 134 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, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 1996-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 548 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 1996-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
548 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
830 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMSP 280027
SVRMSP
MNC043-280115-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
725 PM CDT SAT JUL 27 1996

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  SOUTHWESTERN FARIBAULT COUNTY - SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    BLUE EARTH
    PILOT GROVE
    FROST
    GUCKEEN

* AT 725 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR
  TRUMAN...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF FAIRMONT MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
  25 MPH.

DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY.  GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!

HAMEN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 7:17 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXMartin48 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.