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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Twin Cities, MN

July 13, 2006Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 2006, 3:09 PM CDT for Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota. It was in force for 66 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: Jul 13, 2006, 3:09 PM CDT (20:09 UTC)
Expired: Jul 13, 2006, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 66 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), 168 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:09 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
Jul 13, 3:15 PM CDT	HAIL 0.75	Louisburg, MN
Jul 13, 4:19 PM CDT	HAIL 0.75	Boyd, 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
Jul 13, 2:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 180 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: 1529 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -265 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1146 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 155 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 132010
SVRMPX
MNC073-132115-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0086.060713T2009Z-060713T2115Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
309 PM CDT THU JUL 13 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 415 PM CDT

* AT 307 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE           
  THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL AND 60
  MPH WINDS.  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING       
  FROM 14 MILES NORTH OF MADISON TO 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF             
  DAWSON...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  DAWSON...
  BOYD...
  RURAL AREAS NORTH AND EAST OF MADISON...

LAT...LON 4524 9636 4480 9621 4483 9589 4491 9581
      4518 9608

$$
JPR

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KMPX 132050
SVSMPX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
349 PM CDT THU JUL 13 2006

MNC073-132115-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0086.000000T0000Z-060713T2115Z/
LAC QUI PARLE MN-
349 PM CDT THU JUL 13 2006

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 415 PM CDT
FOR LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY...

AT 345 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE 
THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL. THESE STORMS 
WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM LOUISBURG TO BOYD...AND 
MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE MADISON AND DAWSON.

LAT...LON 4521 9631 4481 9610 4483 9589 4492 9579
      4518 9608

$$
JPR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 13, 3:53 AM CDT	Excessive Heat Watch	MPX	Hennepin, Ramsey	34 hr
Jul 13, 3:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Stevens, Swift	54 min
Jul 13, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine	65 min
Jul 13, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Lac qui Parle	63 min
Jul 13, 5:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift	3 hr
Jul 13, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Yellow Medicine	67 min
Jul 13, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa	50 min
Jul 13, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Renville	53 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.