Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1996, 9:05 PM CDT for Renville County, Minnesota. It was in force for 40 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
- May 17, 1996, 9:05 PM CDT (02:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 1996, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Renville County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:08 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 3047 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1569 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 12.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMSP 180203 SVRMSP MNC129-180245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 905 PM CDT FRI MAY 17 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MINNEAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA ...EASTERN RENVILLE COUNTY AT 905 PM...RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF REDWOOD FALLS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. SOME OF THE TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...HECTOR...MORTON AND BECHYN. 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.
What 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, May 17, 7:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
MNZ039-040-046-047-054>056-064-180145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHANHASSEN/TWIN CITIES MN 738 PM CDT FRI MAY 17 1996 THE TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 383 HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN PART OF WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... TRAVERSE...GRANT...STEVENS...BIG STONE...SWIFT...LAC QUI PARLE CHIPPEWA AND YELLOW MEDICINE. A TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 386 WILL GO IN EFFECT 745 PM UNTIL 100 AM FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHExAST MINNESOTA. JVM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope | 45 min |
| May 17, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns, Todd | 40 min |
| May 17, 7:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Pope | 11 min |
| May 17, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison, Stearns | 49 min |
| May 17, 8:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Todd | 27 min |
| May 17, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Todd | 17 min |
| May 17, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Morrison, Stearns | 49 min |
| May 17, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sherburne, Stearns | 31 min |
| May 17, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Martin, Watonwan | 26 min |
| May 17, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Mille Lacs, Sherburne | 27 min |
| May 17, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Nicollet | 35 min |
| May 17, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Isanti, Kanabec | 41 min |
| May 18, 1:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Fillmore, Houston | 33 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.