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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 29, 1996Dodge County, Olmsted County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 1996, 4:15 PM CDT for Dodge County, Olmsted County, Minnesota. It was in force for 30 min. 1 report 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 29, 1996, 4:15 PM CDT (21:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 1996, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Dodge County, MN, Olmsted County, MN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 29, 4:27 PM CDT	Hail 2.75	Oronoco, 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 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 121 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: 734 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -155 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1273 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 185 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 193 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KRST 292116
TORRST
MNC039-109-292145-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN
415 PM CDT SAT JUN 29 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ROCHESTER MN HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  445 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA
 
   ...NORTHEASTERN DODGE COUNTY...NORTHERN OLMSTED COUNTY
 
AT 412PM RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO IN NORTHEAST DODGE COUHTY. THE
TORNADO SHOULD BE NEAR GENOA BY 420PM...ORONOCO BY 425PM AND NORTHERN
ROCHESTER BY 435PM.
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9PM.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR STAIRWAY TO AVOID COLLAPSING
WALLS.  IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN A CENTRAL
ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET OR BATHROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.
USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.
 
 
 
&
GSF

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 2:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota	29 min
Jun 29, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Goodhue	65 min
Jun 29, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Steele	45 min
Jun 29, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dodge	37 min
Jun 29, 4:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Stevens	27 min
Jun 29, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Douglas, Todd	42 min
Jun 29, 5:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Stearns	57 min
Jun 29, 5:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Fillmore, Houston	41 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.