Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 6, 2006, 4:37 PM CDT for Scott County, Sibley County, Minnesota. It was in force for 23 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, 4:37 PM CDT (21:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2006, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Scott County, MN, Sibley County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:37 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 35 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 062138
SVRMPX
MNC139-143-062200-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0005.060406T2137Z-060406T2200Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
437 PM CDT THU APR 6 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SCOTT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
SIBLEY COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 500 PM CDT
* AT 433 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER SCOTT
COUNTY...OR ABOUT 19 MILES NORTH OF ST PETER...AND MOVING NORTH AT
10 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BLAKELY...
GREEN ISLE...
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 4455 9396 4455 9390 4455 9390 4455 9377
4467 9378 4467 9390 4471 9390 4471 9398
$$
RAH/LSThe 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, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod | 64 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 |
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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.