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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Twin Cities, MN

October 26, 1996Isanti County, Mille Lacs County, Sherburne County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Oct 26, 1996, 6:07 PM CDT for Isanti County, Mille Lacs County, Sherburne County, Minnesota. It was in force for 38 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, 6:07 PM CDT (23:07 UTC)
Expired: Oct 26, 1996, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Isanti County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Sherburne County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:10 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, 6:12 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Cambridge, 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 89 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMSP 262308 RRA
TORMSP
MNC059-095-141-262345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
607 PM CDT SAT OCT 26 1996

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  WESTERN ISANTI COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  SOUTHERN MILLE LACS COUNTY - CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  EASTERN SHERBURNE COUNTY - CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    ELK RIVER
    ZIMMERMAN
    CAMBRIDGE
    PRINCETON

* AT 605 PM CDT VDOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST NORTH
OF ELK RIVER...27 MILES NORTHWEST OF MINNEAPOLIS MOVING NORTH AT
40 MPH.


 GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!

MCBEATH PETERS

The 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, 4:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Pope	36 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, 6:15 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.