Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2006, 6:06 PM CDT for Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota. It was in force for 24 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
- May 9, 2006, 6:06 PM CDT (23:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2006, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lac qui Parle County, MN
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 174 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:07 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 6:20 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 3 Ne Bellingham, MN | HAILED 5 MINUTES. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 2398 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 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 092306 SVRMPX MNC073-092330- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0021.060509T2306Z-060509T2330Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 606 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 603 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BELLINGHAM...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF MADISON...AND MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... LOUISBURG... BELLINGHAM... STAY INDOORS...AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4520 9633 4506 9634 4508 9598 4520 9615 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 092335 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 635 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 2006 MNC073-092345- /O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-060509T2330Z/ LAC QUI PARLE MN- 635 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 2006 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY EXPIRED AT 630 PM CDT... AT 635 PM...A THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN NORTHEAST LAQ QUI PARLE COUNTY NEAR LOUISBURG. RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM WAS BELOW SEVERE LIMITS AND WAS WEAKENING WHILE MOVING SLOWLY EASTWARD. LAT...LON 4520 9633 4506 9634 4508 9598 4520 9615 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 49 min |
| May 8, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin | 59 min |
| May 8, 8:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Waseca | 39 min |
| May 9, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 39 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.