Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 198, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 1996, 11:06 PM CDT for Le Sueur County, Rice County, Minnesota. It was in force for 34 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, 11:06 PM CDT (04:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 1996, 11:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Le Sueur County, MN, Rice County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 55 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 260407
SVRMSP
MNC079-131-260440-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1106 PM CDT SUN AUG 25 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
SOUTHEASTERN LE SUEUR COUNTY - SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
SOUTHWESTERN RICE COUNTY - SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 1140 PM CDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
MORRISTOWN
WARSAW
WATERVILLE
* AT 1105 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20
MILES EAST OF MANKATO NEAR MORRISTOWN MOVING SOUTH AT 15 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, 9:24 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
MNZ059>063-066>070-075>079-083>088-092>096-260500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 915 PM CDT SUN AUG 25 1996 THE FOLLOWING MINNESOTA COUNTIES ARE REMOVED FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 983... ANOKA...RAMSEY...CARVER...SCOTT...DAKOTA...WASHINGTON...HENNEPIN... WRIGHT...MCLEOD AND SIBLEY. THEREFORE...THE TWIN CITIES AND SURROUNDING SUBURBS ARE NO LONGER INCLUDED IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS VALID UNTIL 11 PM TO THE SOUTH OF A LINE FROM REDWING TO ST. PETER TO NEW ULM. THE COMMUNITIES OF ROCHESTER...OWATONNA...AUSTIN AND ALBERT LEA ARE STILL INCLUDED IN THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. WET
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, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice | 50 min |
| Aug 25, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice | 57 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.