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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 199, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 1996, 12:09 AM CDT for Dakota County, Minnesota. It was in force for 31 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 26, 1996, 12:09 AM CDT (05:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 1996, 12:40 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dakota County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 47 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 260510
SVRMSP
MNC037-260540-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1209 AM CDT MON AUG 26 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
DAKOTA COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 1240 AM CDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
HASTINGS
APPLE VALLEY
HAMPTON
FARMINGTON
* AT 1207 AM CDT DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR
COATES...OR 15 MILES SOUTH OF ST PAUL MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...WITH LARGE HAIL. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.
HAMENWhat 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, 2 hours 45 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 25, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Rice | 34 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.