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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Twin Cities, MN

October 29, 1996Carver County, Hennepin County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Oct 29, 1996, 5:02 PM CST for Carver County, Hennepin County, Minnesota. It was in force for 28 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
Oct 29, 1996, 5:02 PM CST (23:02 UTC)
Expired
Oct 29, 1996, 5:30 PM CST
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Carver County, MN, Hennepin County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 8 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 1996-10-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 1996-10-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 182 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
812 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
182 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
254 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 292305 RRA
TORMSP
MNC019-053-292330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
502 PM CST TUE OCT 29 1996

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  EASTERN CARVER COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  WESTERN HENNEPIN COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 530 PM CST
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    CHANHASSEN
    MOUND
    EXCELSIOR
    CHASKA

* AT 5 PM CST THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR VICTORIA OR 25
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF MINNEAPOLIS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.


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

MCBEATH PETERS
 

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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.