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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 5, 1996Meeker County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1996, 5:39 PM CDT for Meeker County, Minnesota. It was in force for 31 min. 2 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
Jun 5, 1996, 5:39 PM CDT (22:39 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1996, 6:10 PM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

County Meeker County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 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
Jun 5, 5:48 PM CDTHail 1.75Litchfield, MN
Jun 5, 5:50 PM CDTHail 1.75Litchfield, 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 79 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 1996-06-05Temperature 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 1996-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 115 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
1263 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
191 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 052240
SVRMSP
MNC093-052310-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
539 PM CDT WED JUN 5 1996

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  MEEKER COUNTY - CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 610 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    LITCHFIELD
    DARWIN
    STROUT

* AT 535 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15
  MILES EAST OF WILLMAR MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

  THESE STORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL.

GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES.

HOWIESON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 4:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXChippewa62 min
Jun 5, 5:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXLac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine63 min
Jun 5, 5:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXKandiyohi, Renville31 min
Jun 5, 6:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRenville57 min
Jun 5, 6:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMeeker16 min
Jun 5, 6:18 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXPope32 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.