Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 6, 2006, 4:01 PM CDT for Chippewa County, Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota. It was in force for 44 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 6, 2006, 4:01 PM CDT (21:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2006, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Chippewa County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 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 6, 4:26 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 5 W Montevideo, MN | COVERING GROUND. |
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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 171 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 062101
SVRMPX
MNC023-073-062145-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0002.060406T2101Z-060406T2145Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
401 PM CDT THU APR 6 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
CHIPPEWA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 445 PM CDT
* AT 358 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
MONTEVIDEO...AND MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MONTEVIDEO...
WATSON...
MILAN...
BIG BEND CITY...
CERRO GORDO...
STAY INDOORS...AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
LAT...LON 4485 9588 4492 9574 4493 9565 4514 9557
4514 9586
$$
RAH/LSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Renville | 34 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 |
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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.