Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 239, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 16, 2006, 9:32 PM CDT for Blue Earth County, Faribault County, Minnesota. It was in force for 58 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
- Sep 16, 2006, 9:32 PM CDT (02:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 2006, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Blue Earth County, MN, Faribault County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 120 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 170233
SVRMPX
MNC013-043-170330-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0239.060917T0232Z-060917T0330Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
932 PM CDT SAT SEP 16 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
BLUE EARTH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
FARIBAULT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT
* AT 928 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL AND 65 MPH WINDS. THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF BLUE EARTH...AND MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
WINNEBAGO...
MINNESOTA LAKE...
MAPLETON...
GOOD THUNDER...
TREE DAMAGE WAS REPORTED IN FAIRMONT WITH THIS STORM.
STAY INDOORS...AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR
SOUTHERN MINNESOTA.
LAT...LON 4384 9424 4363 9423 4358 9396 4385 9380
4399 9378 4404 9410
$$
MTF2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS53 KMPX 170254
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
952 PM CDT SAT SEP 16 2006
MNC013-043-170330-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0239.000000T0000Z-060917T0330Z/
BLUE EARTH MN-FARIBAULT MN-
952 PM CDT SAT SEP 16 2006
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1030 PM CDT
FOR FARIBAULT AND BLUE EARTH COUNTIES...
AT 945 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING ONE AND A QUARTER INCH HAIL AND
65 MPH WINDS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WINNEBAGO...OR ABOUT 11
MILES NORTH OF BLUE EARTH...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS
OF THE INDICATED COUNTIES.
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WIND DAMAGE IN FAIRMONT. SEEK
SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR
SOUTHERN MINNESOTA.
LAT...LON 4384 9424 4363 9423 4372 9399 4385 9380
4401 9377 4404 9410
$$
MTF000
WWUS53 KMPX 170328
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1025 PM CDT SAT SEP 16 2006
MNC013-043-170335-
/O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0239.000000T0000Z-060917T0330Z/
BLUE EARTH MN-FARIBAULT MN-
1025 PM CDT SAT SEP 16 2006
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR FARIBAULT AND BLUE EARTH
COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 1030 PM CDT...
THE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE
WARNED COUNTIES. MORE THUNDERSTORMS AND EXPECTED OVER SOUTHERN
MINNESOTA THROUGH THE NIGHT.
REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR RELAY TO
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR
SOUTHERN MINNESOTA.
LAT...LON 4384 9424 4363 9423 4372 9399 4385 9380
4401 9377 4404 9410
$$
MTFThe 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, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Wright | 42 min |
| Sep 16, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Martin | 63 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
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.