Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1996, 8:35 PM CDT for Freeborn County, Steele County, Minnesota. It was in force for 45 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, 8:35 PM CDT (01:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1996, 9:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Freeborn County, MN, Steele County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:39 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 9:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Owatonna, MN | |
| Jun 5, 9:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 | Hartland, 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 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 238 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 811 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMSP 060137
SVRMSP
MNC047-131-147-060220-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
835 PM CDT WED JUN 5 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
FREEBORN COUNTY - SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
RICE COUNTY - SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA
STEELE COUNTY - SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 920 PM CDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
FARIBAULT
OWATONNA
ALBERT LEA
* AT 835 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 40
MILES EAST OF MANKATO TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF MANKATO MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...WITH DAMAGING WINDS. STAY INDOORS AWAY
FROM WINDOWS.
HOWIESONWhat 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
Local storm report, Jun 5, 6:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MINNESOTA
618 PM CDT WED JUN 5 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0458 PM MILAN MN 1 INCH HAIL
06/05/96 CHIPPEWA
0510 PM NEW LONDON MN .75 INCH HAIL
06/05/96 KANDIYOHI
0548 PM 3 N LITCHFIELD MN 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/96 MEEKERSpecial weather statement, Jun 5, 6:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
MNZ049-060100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 655 PM CDT WED JUN 5 1996 ...TORNADO WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR POPE COUNTY... THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN POPE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA EXPIRED AT 650 PM. SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTERS IN POPE COUNTY OBSERVED A FUNNEL CLOUD THAT DID NOT TOUCH DOWN AND NO DAMAGE WAS REPORTED. THE FUNNEL CLOUD WAS OBSERVED IN SOUTHEAST POPE COUNTY HEADING INTO WESTERN STEARNS COUNTY. SOME STEARNS COUNTY TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE BROOTEN...BELGRADE AND ELROSA. PERSONS IN WESTERN STEARNS COUNTY SHOULD BE ALEAT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER AND BE READY TO MOVE TO SHELTER THROUGH 730 PM. WH
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 8:19 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
MNZ029-039-040-046-047-054>056-064-071-072-060230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 815 PM CDT WED JUN 5 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH CANCELLED FOR PORTIONS OF EXTREME WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CANCELLED TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 556 FOR THE WESTERN MINNESOTA COUNTIES WEST OF A LINE FROM ROTHSAY TO MORRIS TO MONTEVIDEO TO TRACY. THOSE MINNESOTA COUNTIES NO LONGER I NCLUDED IN THE TORNADO WATCH ARE WILKIN TRAVERSE GRANT STEVENS BIG STONE SWIFT LAC QUI PARLE CHIPPEWA YELLOW MEDICINE LINCOLN LYON WH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sibley | 35 min |
| Jun 5, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood | 35 min |
| Jun 5, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Waseca | 48 min |
| Jun 5, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice | 45 min |
| Jun 5, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault | 47 min |
| Jun 5, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 37 min |
| Jun 5, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Waseca | 18 min |
| Jun 5, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dodge | 40 min |
| Jun 5, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Steele | 38 min |
| Jun 5, 9:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dodge | 34 min |
| Jun 5, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Mower, Olmsted | 53 min |
| Jun 5, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Fillmore | 48 min |
| Jun 6, 1:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 32 min |
| Jun 6, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Todd | 60 min |
| Jun 6, 1:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Carver | 30 min |
| Jun 6, 1:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Mille Lacs | 49 min |
| Jun 6, 2:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Scott | 47 min |
| Jun 6, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin | 48 min |
| Jun 6, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur | 49 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.