Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 30, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Oct 26, 1996, 4:09 PM CDT for Pope County, Minnesota. It was in force for 36 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
- Oct 26, 1996, 4:09 PM CDT (21:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 26, 1996, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 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 21:13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Cyrus, 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, 9.2 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 602 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 350 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMSP 262110 RRA
TORMSP
MNC121-262145-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
409 PM CDT SAT OCT 26 1996
* TORNADO WARNING FOR
POPE COUNTY - WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 445 PM CDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
TERRACE
STARBUCK
GLENWOOD
* AT 407 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A TORNADO 35 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF ALEXANDRIA MOVING NORTH AT 50 MPH.
GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!
MCBEATH PETERSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift | 40 min |
| Oct 26, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift, Yellow Medicine | 49 min |
| Oct 26, 3:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope, Stevens | 42 min |
| Oct 26, 4:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Swift | 29 min |
| Oct 26, 4:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Stearns | 32 min |
| Oct 26, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 40 min |
| Oct 26, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 42 min |
| Oct 26, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Todd | 49 min |
| Oct 26, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin, Sherburne, Wright | 44 min |
| Oct 26, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver | 44 min |
| Oct 26, 6:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Isanti, Mille Lacs, Sherburne | 38 min |
| Oct 26, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Anoka | 30 min |
| Oct 26, 6:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chisago | 37 min |
| Oct 26, 6:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Isanti, Kanabec | 28 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.