Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 237, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 16, 2006, 8:48 PM CDT for Carver County, Wright County, Minnesota. It was in force for 42 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
- Sep 16, 2006, 8:48 PM CDT (01:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 2006, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Carver County, MN, Wright County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 9:29 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Howard Lake, MN | TREES DOWN. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 5:07 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 32 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
- 1108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1090 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 328 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 428 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.8
- Supercell composite
- 11.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS53 KMPX 170149
SVRMPX
MNC019-171-170230-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0237.060917T0148Z-060917T0230Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
848 PM CDT SAT SEP 16 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
WRIGHT COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
CARVER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 930 PM CDT
* AT 845 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WINDS. THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED 17 MILES WEST OF WACONIA...OR ABOUT 12 MILES
EAST OF HUTCHINSON...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WACONIA...
WATERTOWN...
MONTROSE...
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.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR
SOUTHERN MINNESOTA.
LAT...LON 4498 9427 4498 9401 4482 9402 4482 9375
4497 9376 4506 9377 4510 9380 4509 9409
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS53 KMPX 170216
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
914 PM CDT SAT SEP 16 2006
MNC019-170224-
/O.CAN.KMPX.SV.W.0237.000000T0000Z-060917T0230Z/
CARVER MN-
914 PM CDT SAT SEP 16 2006
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CARVER COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS EXITED
THE COUNTY AND NO LONGER PRESENTS A SEVERE WEATHER THREAT.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR
SOUTHERN MINNESOTA.
LAT...LON 4498 9427 4498 9401 4501 9378 4506 9379
4510 9380 4517 9388 4511 9419
$$
MNC171-170230-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0237.000000T0000Z-060917T0230Z/
WRIGHT MN-
914 PM CDT SAT SEP 16 2006
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 PM CDT
FOR WRIGHT COUNTY...
AT 910 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED
THE WARNING HAD WEAKENED...HOWEVER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS
ENTERING SOUTHWEST WRIGHT COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF STOCKHOLM...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF
HUTCHINSON...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
RICE LAKE...
COKATO...
MONTROSE...
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 4498 9427 4498 9401 4501 9378 4506 9379
4510 9380 4517 9388 4511 9419
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 47 min |
| Sep 16, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Redwood, Yellow Medicine | 24 min |
| Sep 16, 8:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Renville | 43 min |
| Sep 16, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker | 52 min |
| Sep 16, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod | 57 min |
| Sep 16, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Martin | 63 min |
| Sep 16, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault | 58 min |
| Sep 16, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin, Wright | 47 min |
| Sep 16, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Waseca | 46 min |
| Sep 16, 10:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Anoka | 26 min |
| Sep 16, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Chisago, Hennepin, Washington | 61 min |
| Sep 16, 10:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin | 34 min |
| Sep 16, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago | 32 min |
| Sep 16, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Steele, Waseca | 52 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.