Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 6, 2006, 4:26 PM CDT for McLeod County, Minnesota. It was in force for 64 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
- Apr 6, 2006, 4:26 PM CDT (21:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2006, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County McLeod County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 988 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 062128 SVRMPX MNC085-062230- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0004.060406T2126Z-060406T2230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 426 PM CDT THU APR 6 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MCLEOD COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 424 PM CDT...TRAINED SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HUTCHINSON...AND MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... HUTCHINSON... BISCAY... SILVER LAKE... HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF A NICKEL HAS BEEN REPORTED NEAR 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HUTCHINSON WITH THIS STORM. 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 4472 9448 4472 9419 4497 9418 4497 9448 $$ RAH/LS
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 062216 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 513 PM CDT THU APR 6 2006 MNC085-062230- /O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0004.000000T0000Z-060406T2230Z/ MCLEOD MN- 513 PM CDT THU APR 6 2006 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR MCLEOD COUNTY... AT 511 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...AND THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PLATO...OR ABOUT 18 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HUTCHINSON...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE WINSTED AND LESTER PRAIRIE. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZED HAIL. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4472 9418 4473 9402 4497 9402 4497 9418 $$ RAH/LS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Renville | 34 min |
| Apr 6, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle | 44 min |
| Apr 6, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver | 40 min |
| Apr 6, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Scott, Sibley | 23 min |
| Apr 6, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver | 59 min |
| Apr 6, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey | 62 min |
| Apr 6, 6:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Hennepin, Ramsey | 113 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.