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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Twin Cities, MN

August 6, 1996Pope County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Aug 6, 1996, 8:55 PM CDT for Pope 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: Aug 6, 1996, 8:55 PM CDT (01:55 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 1996, 9:25 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Whole counties

County Pope County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 168 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:54 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	Remark
Aug 6, 9:15 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Glenwood, 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 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 166 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: 4613 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 993 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 130 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMSP 070158
TORMSP
MNC121-070225-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
855 PM CDT TUE AUG 6 1996

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  EASTERN POPE COUNTY - WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 925 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    GLENWOOD
    WESTPORT
    VILLARD

* AT 850 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO NORTH OF VILLARD
  AND SOUTH OF LAKE LEVIN OR ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTH OF
  ALEXANDRIA MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.


 A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND!  TAKE SHELTER NOW!

 MILLER
 

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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
Aug 6, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa	61 min
Aug 6, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Kandiyohi	57 min
Aug 6, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Redwood, Yellow Medicine	46 min
Aug 6, 9:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Meeker	43 min
Aug 6, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Brown, Renville	34 min
Aug 6, 9:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	McLeod, Wright	48 min
Aug 6, 9:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver, Sibley	46 min
Aug 6, 10:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Martin, Watonwan	42 min
Aug 6, 10:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Nicollet	42 min
Aug 6, 10:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Anoka, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, Sherburne	66 min
Aug 6, 10:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Washington	66 min
Aug 6, 10:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Faribault, Waseca	63 min
Aug 6, 10:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Rice	63 min
Aug 6, 11:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Goodhue	55 min
Aug 6, 11:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chisago, Isanti	55 min
Aug 6, 11:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota	33 min
Aug 7, 12:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Freeborn, Steele	33 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.