Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2006, 4:38 PM CDT for Freeborn County, Minnesota. It was in force for 56 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
- May 8, 2006, 4:38 PM CDT (21:38 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2006, 5:34 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Freeborn County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:39 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 544 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 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 082139
SVRMPX
MNC047-082245-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0017.060508T2138Z-060508T2245Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
438 PM CDT MON MAY 8 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
FREEBORN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 545 PM CDT
* AT 435 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM
WAS LOCATED 11 MILES SOUTH OF HAYWARD...AND MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 15 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ALBERT LEA...
HAYWARD...
GLENVILLE...
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 4350 9344 4351 9305 4356 9305 4385 9306
4385 9333
$$
MTF3 follow-up statements
000
WWUS53 KMPX 082200
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
458 PM CDT MON MAY 8 2006
MNC047-082245-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0017.000000T0000Z-060508T2245Z/
FREEBORN MN-
458 PM CDT MON MAY 8 2006
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM CDT
FOR FREEBORN COUNTY...
AT 456 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HOLLANDALE...OR ABOUT 7
MILES WEST OF AUSTIN...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE LONDON...MYRTLE...HAYWARD...
GLENVILLE...GENEVA...CLARKS GROVE AND ALBERT LEA.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A
SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
THIS STORM WILL PASS OVER INTERSTATE 90.
LAT...LON 4350 9344 4351 9305 4356 9305 4385 9306
4385 9333
$$
MTF000
WWUS53 KMPX 082217
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
516 PM CDT MON MAY 8 2006
MNC047-082245-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0017.000000T0000Z-060508T2245Z/
FREEBORN MN-
516 PM CDT MON MAY 8 2006
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM CDT
FOR FREEBORN COUNTY...
AT 513 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MYRTLE...OR ABOUT OVER HAYWARD...AND
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. A SECOND STORM NEARING SEVERE LIMITS WAS
ENTRING FAR SOUTHEAST FREEBORN COUNTY.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE LONDON AND INTERSTATE 90 EAST
OF ALBERT LEA.
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 4361 9324 4350 9314 4350 9305 4356 9305
4383 9305 4379 9318
$$
MTF000
WWUS53 KMPX 082234
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
532 PM CDT MON MAY 8 2006
MNC047-082242-
/O.CAN.KMPX.SV.W.0017.000000T0000Z-060508T2245Z/
FREEBORN MN-
532 PM CDT MON MAY 8 2006
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR FREEBORN COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
RADAR INDICATED THAT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAD WEAKENED BELOW
SEVERE LIMITS. THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. REPORT SEVERE
WEATHER TO YOUR LOCAL COUNTY OFFICIALS.
LAT...LON 4361 9324 4350 9314 4350 9305 4356 9305
4383 9305 4379 9318
$$
MTFNearby
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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.