Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Twin Cities, MN

Issued

May 18, 1996, 9:54 PM CDT (02:54 UTC)

Expired

May 18, 1996, 10:30 PM CDT

In force

36 min

Issued by

NWS Twin Cities, MN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 190 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

000 
TTAA00 KMSP 190257 COR
SVRMSP
MNC129-023-073-149-151-173-190330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED...CORRECTION
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN
954 PM CDT SAT MAY 18 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MINNEAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
 
   ...RENVILLE COUNTY
 
IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
 
   ...CHIPPEWA COUNTY...LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY...STEVENS COUNTY
   ...SWIFT COUNTY...YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY
 
AT 950 PM...RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM
CANBY TO NEAR REDWOOD FALLS. CANBY IS ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
MONTEVIDEO. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL LIKELY
AFFECT OLIVIA...GRANITE FALLS...MONTEVIDEO AND MADISON THROUGH 1030 PM.
 
THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT.  REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING.  BE READY TO
QUICKLY MOVE TO THE BASEMENT.
 
JJ

In the hours before

MNZ039-046>096-190200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...MINNESOTA SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
345 PM CDT SAT MAY 18 1996

...POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHERN MINNESOTA
TONIGHT...

A DEVELOPING WEATHER SYSTEM ACROSS THE DAKOTAS WILL SWING INTO
THE UPPER MIDWEST OVERNIGHT AND BRING A RETURN OF GULF MOISTURE
TO MINNESOTA.  THE COMBINATION OF THESE IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE
ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM OUTBREAK ACROSS SOUTHERN MINNESOTA TONIGHT.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND
EARLY THIS EVENING NEAR THE MINNESOTA/SOUTH DAKOTA BORDER.
CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THESE STORMS TO BECOME
SEVERE...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND POSSIBLY
TORNADOES.  THE STORMS SHOULD SPREAD ACROSS SOUTHERN MINNESOTA
AND REACH THE TWIN CITIES AND ROCHESTER BY AROUND MIDNIGHT.
>
THIS IS A POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION.  PLEASE REMAIN
ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER
UPDATES.

MARGRAF!

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.