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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 6, 1996Carver County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 6, 1996, 1:25 PM CDT for Carver County, Minnesota. It was in force for 30 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 6, 1996, 1:25 PM CDT (18:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 1996, 1:55 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Whole counties

County Carver County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 16 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 156 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -132 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1106 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 44 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 061825
TORMSP
MNC019-061855-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
125 PM CDT THU JUN 6 1996

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  CARVER COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 155 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    WACONIA
    COLOGNE
    VICTORIA
    CHANHASSEN

* AT 120 PM CDT LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO 30 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF MINNEAPOLIS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

  A BRIEF TOUCHDvOWN WAS REPORTED NEAR HAMBURG AT 115 PM IN
  SOUTHWEST CARVER COUNTY.


 GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!

HOWIESON
 

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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 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, 1:56 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

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.