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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 205, NWS Twin Cities, MN

September 10, 1996Swift County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 10, 1996, 3:42 AM CDT for Swift County, Minnesota. It was in force for 48 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
Sep 10, 1996, 3:42 AM CDT (08:42 UTC)
Expired
Sep 10, 1996, 4:30 AM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

County Swift County, MN

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 170 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 1996-09-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1996-09-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 86 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2077 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
219 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 10, 2:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXLac qui Parle43 min
Sep 10, 3:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXIsanti30 min
Sep 10, 2:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXFaribault61 min
Sep 10, 4:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBarron51 min
Sep 10, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRusk62 min
Sep 10, 4:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBarron64 min
Sep 10, 5:42 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXChippewa18 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.