Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 2006, 2:40 AM CDT for Chisago County, Isanti County, Minnesota. It was in force for 50 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
- Aug 23, 2006, 2:40 AM CDT (07:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2006, 3:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Chisago County, MN, Isanti County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:42 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 3:00 AM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | North Branch, MN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 1984 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 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 230740 SVRMPX MNC025-059-230830- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0162.060823T0740Z-060823T0830Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 240 AM CDT WED AUG 23 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ISANTI COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... CHISAGO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 330 AM CDT * AT 231 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH BRANCH...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF CAMBRIDGE...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... NORTH BRANCH... BRANCH... HARRIS... RUSH CITY... STAY INDOORS...AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4567 9315 4541 9320 4541 9280 4568 9290 $$
1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS53 KMPX 230802
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
259 AM CDT WED AUG 23 2006
MNC025-059-230830-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0162.000000T0000Z-060823T0830Z/
ISANTI MN-CHISAGO MN-
259 AM CDT WED AUG 23 2006
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 330 AM CDT
FOR CHISAGO AND ISANTI COUNTIES...
AT 258 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BRANCH...OR ABOUT 13 MILES EAST OF
CAMBRIDGE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR ALSO
INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE STORMS OVER WESTERN ISANTI COUNTY FROM
NEAR DALBO TO CROWN. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 45
MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE CAMBRIDGE...STANCHFIELD AND
BRADFORD.
LAT...LON 4572 9346 4547 9351 4542 9314 4541 9280
4568 9290
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 2:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 38 min |
| Aug 23, 2:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Sherburne, Wright | 58 min |
| Aug 23, 2:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift | 59 min |
| Aug 23, 3:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka | 36 min |
| Aug 23, 3:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago | 35 min |
| Aug 23, 4:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Renville | 23 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.