Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at May 19, 1996, 12:30 AM CDT for Carver County, McLeod County, Sibley County, Minnesota. It was in force for 30 min. 4 reports 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
- May 19, 1996, 12:30 AM CDT (05:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 1996, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Carver County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Sibley County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 12:48 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Brownton, MN | |
| May 19, 12:50 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Mayer, MN | |
| May 19, 1:00 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 | New Auburn, MN | |
| May 19, 1:05 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Chanhassen, 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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 41 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -231 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2274 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 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 190533 COR TORMSP MNC085-143-019-190600- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED...CORRECTED WORDING TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 1230 AM CDT SUN MAY 19 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MINNEAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA ...SOUTHERN MCLEOD COUNTY...NORTHERN SIBLEY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA ...WESTERN CARVER COUNTY AT 1225 AM...DOPPER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES EAST OF FERNANDO OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTH OF HUTCHINSON. TOWNS IN THE PATH INCLUDE ARLINGTON...GLENCOE...NEW AUBURN AND NORWOOD. HEAD FOR THE BASEMENT NOW! THE TORNADO COUL>D BE BEARING DOWN ON YOU QUICKLY. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER STURDY FURNITURE. MBK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Renville | 43 min |
| May 18, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 41 min |
| May 18, 9:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle | 25 min |
| May 18, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 34 min |
| May 18, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Renville, Yellow Medicine | 36 min |
| May 18, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stevens, Swift | 36 min |
| May 18, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, McLeod, Meeker, Sibley, Wright | 57 min |
| May 18, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Scott | 57 min |
| May 18, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 57 min |
| May 18, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 57 min |
| May 18, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker, Stearns | 63 min |
| May 18, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin, Sherburne, Wright | 63 min |
| May 18, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Ramsey, Washington | 63 min |
| May 18, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Renville, Yellow Medicine | 55 min |
| May 18, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood | 55 min |
| May 18, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago, Isanti | 54 min |
| May 18, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Watonwan | 45 min |
| May 18, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Nicollet, Sibley | 45 min |
| May 18, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod | 45 min |
| May 18, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin, Ramsey, Sherburne, Wright | 50 min |
| May 18, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker, Stearns | 50 min |
| May 18, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Washington | 50 min |
| May 18, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin, Meeker, Sherburne, Stearns, Wright | 65 min |
| May 18, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Ramsey, Washington | 65 min |
| May 19, 12:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Renville | 29 min |
| May 19, 12:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago, Isanti | 53 min |
| May 19, 12:20 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Wright | 25 min |
| May 19, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Le Sueur, McLeod, Nicollet, Scott, Sibley | 60 min |
| May 19, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Watonwan | 60 min |
| May 19, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Martin | 45 min |
| May 19, 12:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Washington | 62 min |
| May 19, 12:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Chisago | 62 min |
| May 19, 1:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Isanti | 37 min |
| May 19, 1:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue, Rice | 58 min |
| May 19, 1:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Steele, Waseca | 58 min |
| May 19, 1:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault | 34 min |
| May 19, 1:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Le Sueur | 28 min |
| May 19, 1:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dodge, Mower | 73 min |
| May 19, 1:48 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 27 min |
| May 19, 1:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 76 min |
| May 19, 1:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Fillmore, Houston, Winona | 61 min |
| May 19, 1:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Olmsted, Wabasha | 61 min |
| May 19, 3:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Fillmore, Houston | 29 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.