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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Twin Cities, MN

May 9, 2006Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota

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.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 9, 6:20 PM CDTHAIL 0.753 Ne Bellingham, MNHAILED 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2006-05-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2006-05-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -14 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 8, 7:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXHennepin49 min
May 8, 8:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXAnoka, Hennepin59 min
May 8, 8:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXWaseca39 min
May 9, 6:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMorrison39 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.