Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at May 17, 1996, 7:49 PM CDT for Pope County, Minnesota. It was in force for 11 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
- May 17, 1996, 7:49 PM CDT (00:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 1996, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 11 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 00:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 3047 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1569 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 12.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMSP 180049 TORMSP MNC121-180100- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 749 PM CDT FRI MAY 17 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MINNEAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA ...EASTERN POPE COUNTY AT 745 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR...THE GILCHRIST AND BROOTEN AREA. THE TORNADO WARNI@NG HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 8 PM. SOME CITIES ARE..BELGRADE AND PADUA OR ABOUT 20 MILES NORTH OF WILLMAR. GO TO THE BASEMENT...AND GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR STAIRWAY TO AVOID COLLAPSING WALLS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope | 45 min |
| May 17, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns, Todd | 40 min |
| May 17, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison, Stearns | 49 min |
| May 17, 8:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Todd | 27 min |
| May 17, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Todd | 17 min |
| May 17, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Morrison, Stearns | 49 min |
| May 17, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Renville | 40 min |
| May 17, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sherburne, Stearns | 31 min |
| May 17, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Martin, Watonwan | 26 min |
| May 17, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Mille Lacs, Sherburne | 27 min |
| May 17, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Nicollet | 35 min |
| May 17, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Isanti, Kanabec | 41 min |
| May 18, 1:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Fillmore, Houston | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.