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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 18, 2006, 5:55 PM CDT for 4 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 65 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 18, 2006, 5:55 PM CDT (22:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 18, 2006, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Blue Earth County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Waseca County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 5:55 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Mankato, MN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 1640 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 182256 SVRMPX MNC013-079-103-161-190000- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0010.060418T2255Z-060419T0000Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 555 PM CDT TUE APR 18 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LE SUEUR COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA NICOLLET COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA BLUE EARTH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA WASECA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 553 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MANKATO TO 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF ST PETER...AND MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... NORSELAND... ST GEORGE... LAFAYETTE... GREENLAND... OTTAWA... ELYSIAN... CLEVELAND... LAT...LON 4393 9384 4413 9348 4445 9405 4444 9463 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Renville | 61 min |
| Apr 18, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, McLeod, Meeker, Renville | 38 min |
| Apr 18, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sibley | 28 min |
| Apr 18, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 34 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.