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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 194, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 1996, 9:10 PM CDT for Rice 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
- Aug 25, 1996, 9:10 PM CDT (02:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 1996, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rice County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 3008 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1140 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMSP 260211
SVRMSP
MNC131-260300-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
910 PM CDT SUN AUG 25 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
RICE COUNTY - SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
CANNON CITY
SHIELDSVILLE
FARIBAULT
* AT 910 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST
NORTH OF FARIBAULT MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...WITH LARGE HAIL. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.
HOWIESONWhat 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, Aug 25, 4:35 PM CDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before
MNZ051>053-057>063-065>070-073>078-080>084-WIZ014-015-023>025-232135- ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM RISK FOR WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN AND SOUTH MINNESOTA INTO THIS SUNDAY EVENING... THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS INCREASED SUBSTANTIALLY ACROSS PART OF WEST WISCONSIN AND MUCH OF SOUTH AND EASTCENTRAL MINNESOTA FOR THIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON INTO THIS SUNDAY EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED FROM NEAR ROBERTS IN ST. CROIX COUNTY IN WISCONSIN...SOUTHWEST TO NEAR APPLE VALLEY IN DAKOTA COUNTY OF MINNESOTA OVER THE PAST 15 MINUTES. A LARGER AREA OF THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY OVER CENTRAL MINNESOTA IS JUST BEGINNING TO DRIFT INTO NORTHERN WRIGHT AND ANOKA COUNTIES. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS LIKELY TO INTENSIFY RAPIDLY OVER THE TWIN CITES BETWEEN 430 PM AND 6 PM AND THERE APPEARS TO BE A STRONG LIKELIHOOD OF LARGE HAIL WITH SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS. THIS IS THE TIME TO THINK ABOUT MOVING A CAR INTO THE GARAGE IF ITS OUT IN THE DRIVEWAY. ALONG WITH THE LARGE HAIL RISK...SOME LOCALLY DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE FROM A FEW OF THESE STORMS THROUGH ABOUT 9 PM THIS SUNDAY EVENING. WET
Special weather statement, Aug 25, 4:39 PM CDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before
MNZ053-058>063-065>070-073>078-081>083-WIZ014-015-023>025-252135- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED FOR HEADING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 435 PM CDT SUN AUG 25 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM RISK FOR WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN AND SOUTH MINNESOTA INTO THIS SUNDAY EVENING... THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS INCREASED SUBSTANTIALLY ACROSS PART OF WEST WISCONSIN AND MUCH OF SOUTH AND EASTCENTRAL MINNESOTA FOR THIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON INTO THIS SUNDAY EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED FROM NEAR ROBERTS IN ST. CROIX COUNTY IN WISCONSIN...SOUTHWEST TO NEAR APPLE VALLEY IN DAKOTA COUNTY OF MINNESOTA OVER THE PAST 15 MINUTES. A LARGER AREA OF THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY OVER CENTRAL MINNESOTA IS JUST BEGINNING TO DRIFT INTO NORTHERN WRIGHT AND ANOKA COUNTIES. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS LIKELY TO INTENSIFY RAPIDLY OVER THE TWIN CITES BETWEEN 430 PM AND 6 PM AND THERE APPEARS TO BE A STRONG LIKELIHOOD OF LARGE HAIL WITH SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS. THIS IS THE TIME TO THINK ABOUT MOVING A CAR INTO THE GARAGE IF ITS OUT IN THE DRIVEWAY. ALONG WITH THE LARGE HAIL RISK...SOME LOCALLY DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE FROM A FEW OF THESE STORMS THROUGH ABOUT 9 PM THIS SUNDAY EVENING. TOGSTAD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota | 61 min |
| Aug 25, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 60 min |
| Aug 25, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Scott | 45 min |
| Aug 25, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Rice | 44 min |
| Aug 25, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 69 min |
| Aug 25, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice | 57 min |
| Aug 25, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Rice | 34 min |
| Aug 26, 12:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota | 31 min |
| Aug 26, 12:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Rice, Steele, Waseca | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 12:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Nicollet | 3 hr |
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.