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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 159, NWS Twin Cities, MN

August 6, 1996Carver County, Sibley County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 1996, 9:59 PM CDT for Carver County, Sibley County, Minnesota. It was in force for 46 min. 4 reports 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
Aug 6, 1996, 9:59 PM CDT (02:59 UTC)
Expired
Aug 6, 1996, 10:45 PM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Carver County, MN, Sibley County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:45 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 6, 10:05 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 55Norwood, MN
Aug 6, 10:08 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 55Waconia, MN
Aug 6, 10:08 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52Gibbon, MN
Aug 6, 10:17 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 55Mayer, 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 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 37 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 1996-08-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4613 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 1996-08-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 60 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
4613 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
993 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
130 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMSP 070308 COR
SVRMSP
MNC019-143-070345-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
959 PM CDT TUE AUG 6 1996

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  CARVER COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  SIBLEY COUNTY - SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 1045 PM CDT

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    GAYLORD
    ARLINGTON
    WACONIA
    VICTORIA

* AT 958 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
  FROM 10 MILES EAST OF HUTCHINSON  TO NEAR  GAYLORD...OR ABOUT 60
  MILES WEST OF DOWNTOWN MINNEAPOLIS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

MILLER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 6, 7:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXChippewa61 min
Aug 6, 8:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXChippewa, Kandiyohi57 min
Aug 6, 8:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRedwood, Yellow Medicine46 min
Aug 6, 8:55 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXPope30 min
Aug 6, 9:02 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXMeeker43 min
Aug 6, 9:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBrown, Renville34 min
Aug 6, 9:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMcLeod, Wright48 min
Aug 6, 10:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBlue Earth, Martin, Watonwan42 min
Aug 6, 10:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXNicollet42 min
Aug 6, 10:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXAnoka, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, Sherburne66 min
Aug 6, 10:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXWashington66 min
Aug 6, 10:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBlue Earth, Faribault, Waseca63 min
Aug 6, 10:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRice63 min
Aug 6, 11:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXGoodhue55 min
Aug 6, 11:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXChisago, Isanti55 min
Aug 6, 11:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXDakota33 min
Aug 7, 12:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXFreeborn, Steele33 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.