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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Twin Cities, MN

October 3, 2006Dakota County, Hennepin County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 3, 2006, 10:04 PM CDT for Dakota County, Hennepin County, Minnesota. It was in force for 26 min. 2 reports 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: Oct 3, 2006, 10:04 PM CDT (03:04 UTC)
Expired: Oct 3, 2006, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Dakota County, MN, Hennepin County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:05 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
Oct 3, 10:08 PM CDT	HAIL 0.75	Eagan, MN
Oct 3, 10:22 PM CDT	HAIL 0.75	Inver Grove Heights, MN

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
Oct 3, 3:34 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 34 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 746 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -217 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 880 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 296 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 530 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 23.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 040305
SVRMPX
MNC037-053-040330-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0252.061004T0304Z-061004T0330Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1004 PM CDT TUE OCT 3 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HENNEPIN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
  DAKOTA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...

* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT

* AT 1001 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...  
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.   THIS STORM WAS LOCATED    
  NEAR BLOOMINGTON...OR ABOUT 6 MILES WEST OF   EAGAN...AND MOVING   
  EAST AT 40 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  EAGAN...
  MENDOTA HEIGHTS...
  ROSEMOUNT...
  BLOOMINGTON...
  BURNSVILLE...  

STAY INDOORS...AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 4491 9339 4473 9337 4472 9289 4479 9299
      4488 9303

$$

JPR/MDB

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KMPX 040319
SVSMPX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1018 PM CDT TUE OCT 3 2006

MNC053-040328-
/O.CAN.KMPX.SV.W.0252.000000T0000Z-061004T0330Z/
HENNEPIN MN-
1018 PM CDT TUE OCT 3 2006

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR HENNEPIN COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT WEDNESDAY
MORNING FOR SOUTHERN MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN.

LAT...LON 4482 9324 4474 9330 4472 9289 4479 9299
      4492 9306

$$

MNC037-040330-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0252.000000T0000Z-061004T0330Z/
DAKOTA MN-
1018 PM CDT TUE OCT 3 2006

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1030 PM CDT
FOR DAKOTA COUNTY...

AT 1008 PM...PENNY SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN EAGAN WITH 
THIS STORM.

AT 1014 PM CDT...   THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR INVER GROVE
HEIGHTS...OR ABOUT OVER EAGAN...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE EAGAN.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT WEDNESDAY
MORNING FOR SOUTHERN MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN.

LAT...LON 4482 9324 4474 9330 4472 9289 4479 9299
      4492 9306

$$

JPR/MDB

000 
WWUS53 KMPX 040329
SVSMPX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1027 PM CDT TUE OCT 3 2006

MNC037-040337-
/O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0252.000000T0000Z-061004T0330Z/
DAKOTA MN-
1027 PM CDT TUE OCT 3 2006

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR DAKOTA COUNTY EXPIRES AT 1030
PM CDT...

AT 1022 PM...PENNY SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN INVER GROVE HEIGHTS 
WITH THE STORM. THE STORM HAD JUST MOVED OUT OF DAKOTA COUNTY.

LAT...LON 4482 9324 4474 9330 4472 9289 4479 9299
      4492 9306

$$

JPR/MDB

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 3, 10:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Le Sueur	27 min
Oct 3, 10:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Scott	46 min
Oct 3, 10:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Anoka, Hennepin, Sherburne, Wright	56 min
Oct 3, 11:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota	50 min
Oct 3, 11:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Scott	34 min
Oct 3, 11:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Washington	28 min
Oct 3, 11:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota	46 min
Oct 4, 12:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Le Sueur, Rice	58 min
Oct 4, 1:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Martin	49 min
Oct 4, 1:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Watonwan	41 min
Oct 4, 2:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Faribault	60 min
Oct 4, 2:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Steele, Waseca	37 min
Oct 4, 2:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Freeborn	62 min
Oct 4, 2:29 PM CDT	Frost Advisory	MPX	Anoka, Benton, Chisago, Douglas, Isanti, Kanabec and 12 more	15 hr

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.