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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 12, 1996Goodhue County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1996, 8:56 PM CDT for Goodhue County, Minnesota. It was in force for 34 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 12, 1996, 8:56 PM CDT (01:56 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 1996, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

County Goodhue County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:59 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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 85 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 00:00Z on 1996-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 54 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1996-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 6 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
54 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-143 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2800 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
9 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 130156
SVRMSP
MNC049-130230-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
856 PM CDT WED JUN 12 1996

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  EASTERN GOODHUE COUNTY - SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 930 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    HAY CREEK
    BELVIDERE MILLS
    GOODHUE

* AT 855 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR
  HAY CREEK OR 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RED WING MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25
  MPH.

DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY.  GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!

MCBEATH PETERS

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 12, 8:16 PM CDT, 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHANHASSEN/TWIN CITIES MINNESOTA
815 PM CDT WED JUN 12 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0735 PM    COTTAGE GROVE             MN   WIND DAMAGE
06/12/96   WASHINGTON                     FEW POWER LINES DOWN ON
                                          90TH ST.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 7:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXWashington27 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.