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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Twin Cities, MN

July 6, 1996Nicollet County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 6, 1996, 2:09 PM CDT for Nicollet County, Minnesota. It was in force for 36 min. 3 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: Jul 6, 1996, 2:09 PM CDT (19:09 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 1996, 2:45 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Whole counties

County Nicollet County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:12 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
Jul 6, 2:30 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Klossner, MN
Jul 6, 2:30 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 55	Klossner, MN
Jul 6, 2:50 PM CDT	Hail 1	New Sweden, 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 76 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: 40 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -174 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1190 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 82 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 061912
TORMSP
MNC103-061945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
209 PM CDT SAT JUL 6 1996

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  NICOLLET COUNTY - SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 245 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    ST GEORGE
    LAFAYETTE
    NEW ULM
    KLOSSNER

* AT 205 PM CDT A SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO 1 MILE
  WEST OF NEW ULM MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.


IF YOU ARE IN A MULTIPLE STORY BUILDING...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR
ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS!

 
DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO OUTRUN A TORNADO.  CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED
AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS.  IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A
TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRO6NG BUILDING.  IF NO
STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.

MCBEATH PETERS
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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
Jul 6, 1:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Renville	57 min
Jul 6, 2:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Nicollet	46 min
Jul 6, 3:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth	58 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.