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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 23, 2006Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2006, 4:29 PM CDT for Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota. It was in force for 27 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 23, 2006, 4:29 PM CDT (21:29 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 2006, 4:56 PM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lac qui Parle County, MN

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 23, 4:30 PM CDTHAIL 13 Ssw Marietta, MNQUARTER SIZED HAIL IN SECTION 5 OF MEHURIN TOWNSHIP. SOYBEAN CROP DAMAGE REPORTED IN SECTION 17 OF MEHURIN TOWNSHIP...SIZE OF HAIL UNKNOWN.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 165 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2006-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 221 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2006-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 46 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
221 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-140 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1481 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 232129
SVRMPX
MNC073-232215-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0065.060623T2129Z-060623T2215Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
429 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 427 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.  THIS STORM WAS
  LOCATED 16 MILES WEST OF MADISON...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MARIETTA...
  CERRO GORDO...
  DAWSON...

STAY INDOORS...AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 4518 9652 4493 9667 4480 9594 4506 9592

$$

JVM
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS53 KMPX 232156
SVSMPX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
453 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 2006

MNC073-232203-
/O.CAN.KMPX.SV.W.0065.000000T0000Z-060623T2215Z/
LAC QUI PARLE MN-
453 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 2006

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM HAD WEAKENED TO BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. 
THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THIS STORM COULD STILL PRODUCE 
SOME HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL IN THE VICINITY OF PROVIDENCE BY 
515 PM.  

LAT...LON 4518 9652 4493 9667 4480 9594 4506 9592

$$

JVM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 5:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXYellow Medicine56 min
Jun 23, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRedwood35 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.