Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1996, 9:57 PM CDT for Fillmore County, Minnesota. It was in force for 48 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
- Jun 5, 1996, 9:57 PM CDT (02:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1996, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fillmore County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 178 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 KRST 060302 SVRRST MNC045-060345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN 957 PM CDT WED JUN 5 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ROCHESTER MN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA ...FILLMORE COUNTY AT 1055PM RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN OLMSTED COUNTY 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROCHESTER. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH TOWARD FILLMORE COUNTY. THE STORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE TOWNS OF WASHINGTON BY 1010PM...SPRING VALLEY BY 1020 PM...AND PRESTON BY 1030 PM. WHEN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...STAY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. PROTECT YOURSELF FROM DAMAGING WINDS OR HAIL BY KEEPING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LISTEN TO YOUR RADIO OR TELEVISION... BUT TURN OFF ALL OTHER ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES. DO NOT USE THE PHONE DURING PERIODS OF FREQUENT LIGHTNING. & >
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
Local storm report, Jun 5, 6:18 PM CDT, 3 hours 39 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, 3 hours 2 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, 1 hour 38 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 | Freeborn, Steele | 45 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 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.