Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2006, 4:24 PM CDT for Douglas County, Todd County, Minnesota. It was in force for 66 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
- Jun 5, 2006, 4:24 PM CDT (21:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2006, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Douglas County, MN, Todd County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 189 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 4:51 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 2 Nw Clotho, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 2:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 1622 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 052124 SVRMPX MNC041-153-052230- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0046.060605T2124Z-060605T2230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 424 PM CDT MON JUN 5 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... TODD COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA... DOUGLAS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 418 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MILLERVILLE...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF ALEXANDRIA...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MILTONA... BELLE RIVER... ROSE CITY... CLOTHO... EAGLE BEND... CLARISSA... BROWERVILLE... LAT...LON 4617 9558 4599 9555 4597 9466 4620 9466 $$ RJN
2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS53 KMPX 052202
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
459 PM CDT MON JUN 5 2006
MNC041-153-052230-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0046.000000T0000Z-060605T2230Z/
TODD MN-DOUGLAS MN-
459 PM CDT MON JUN 5 2006
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 PM CDT
FOR DOUGLAS AND TODD COUNTIES...
AT 458 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CLARISSA...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF
LONG PRAIRIE...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING IN TODD COUNTY INCLUDE
BROWERVILLE.
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EASTWARD OUT OF GRANT COUNTY WILL BE
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS NORTHERN AND WESTERN
DOUGLAS COUNTY BY 530 PM. THIS WOULD INCLUDE EVANSVILLE AND HOLMES
CITY.
LAT...LON 4609 9575 4580 9572 4597 9466 4633 9475
4610 9515
$$
RJN000
WWUS53 KMPX 052225
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
524 PM CDT MON JUN 5 2006
MNC041-153-052244-
/O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0046.000000T0000Z-060605T2230Z/
TODD MN-DOUGLAS MN-
524 PM CDT MON JUN 5 2006
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR DOUGLAS AND TODD COUNTIES WILL
EXPIRE AT 530 PM CDT...
SEVERE STORMS WERE ABOUT TO MOVE OUT OF TODD COUNTY. HOWEVER...MORE
THUNDERSTORMS WERE JUST WEST OF DOUGLAS COUNTY...AND WILL BE MOVING
INTO DOUGLAS COUNTY BETWEEN 530 PM AND 600 PM.
REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE ADDITIONAL WARNINGS.
LAT...LON 4609 9575 4580 9572 4597 9466 4633 9475
4610 9515
$$
RJNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 36 min |
| Jun 5, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Isanti, Mille Lacs, Sherburne | 61 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.