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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 222, NWS Twin Cities, MN

October 26, 1996Chippewa County, Lac qui Parle County, Swift County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 26, 1996, 2:35 PM CDT for Chippewa County, Lac qui Parle County, Swift County, Minnesota. It was in force for 40 min. 3 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
Oct 26, 1996, 2:35 PM CDT (19:35 UTC)
Expired
Oct 26, 1996, 3:15 PM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Chippewa County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Swift County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 179 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 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
Oct 26, 2:50 PM CDTHail 1Dawson, MN
Oct 26, 3:00 PM CDTHail 1Benson, MN
Oct 26, 3:15 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 60Holloway, 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 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 176 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 12:00Z on 1996-10-26Temperature 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 12:00Z on 1996-10-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 203 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
602 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
203 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
350 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 261936 RRA
SVRMSP
MNC023-073-151-262015-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
235 PM CDT SAT OCT 26 1996

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  WESTERN CHIPPEWA COUNTY - WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY - WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  WESTERN SWIFT COUNTY - WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 315 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    MADISON
    LOUISBURG
    MILAN
    APPLETON

* AT 235 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 35
  MILES WEST OF MONTEVIDEO MOVING NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! A TORNADO
WATCH IS IN EFFECT.  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES.

MCBEATH PETERS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 26, 3:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXChippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift, Yellow Medicine49 min
Oct 26, 3:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXPope, Stevens42 min
Oct 26, 4:01 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXSwift29 min
Oct 26, 4:09 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXPope36 min
Oct 26, 4:18 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXStearns32 min
Oct 26, 4:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXDouglas40 min
Oct 26, 5:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXStearns42 min
Oct 26, 5:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXTodd49 min
Oct 26, 5:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXHennepin, Sherburne, Wright44 min
Oct 26, 5:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXCarver44 min
Oct 26, 6:07 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXIsanti, Mille Lacs, Sherburne38 min
Oct 26, 6:15 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXAnoka30 min
Oct 26, 6:38 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXChisago37 min
Oct 26, 6:47 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXIsanti, Kanabec28 min

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.