Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 6, 2006, 3:26 PM CDT for McLeod County, Renville County, Minnesota. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 6, 2006, 3:26 PM CDT (20:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2006, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties McLeod County, MN, Renville County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 988 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 062027 SVRMPX MNC085-129-062100- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0001.060406T2026Z-060406T2100Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 326 PM CDT THU APR 6 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MCLEOD COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA RENVILLE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 400 PM CDT * AT 320 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR STEWART...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HUTCHINSON...AND MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... LAKESIDE... BUFFALO LAKE... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4471 9465 4472 9446 4489 9447 4489 9466 $$ RAH/LS
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 062043 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 342 PM CDT THU APR 6 2006 MNC085-129-062100- /O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0001.000000T0000Z-060406T2100Z/ MCLEOD MN-RENVILLE MN- 342 PM CDT THU APR 6 2006 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR RENVILLE AND MCLEOD COUNTIES... AT 329 PM CDT...HAIL UP TO THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH IN DIAMETER WAS REPORTED 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF RENVILLE WITH THIS STORM. AT 337 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...AND THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR STEWART...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HUTCHINSON...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE LAKESIDE AND BUFFALO LAKE. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4471 9465 4472 9446 4489 9447 4489 9466 $$ RAH/LS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle | 44 min |
| Apr 6, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver | 40 min |
| Apr 6, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod | 64 min |
| Apr 6, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Scott, Sibley | 23 min |
| Apr 6, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver | 59 min |
| Apr 6, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey | 62 min |
| Apr 6, 6:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Hennepin, Ramsey | 113 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006
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.