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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Aug 24, 2006, 7:09 PM CDT for Steele County, Minnesota. It was in force for 36 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
- Aug 24, 2006, 7:09 PM CDT (00:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2006, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Steele County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 3:17 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 360 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
- 228 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -313 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1898 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KMPX 250008 TORMPX MNC147-250045- /O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0013.060825T0009Z-060825T0045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 709 PM CDT THU AUG 24 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... STEELE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 706 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WAS NEAR MEDFORD...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTH OF OWATONNA...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MERTON... MOLAND... MEDFORD... OWATONNA... CLINTON FALLS... THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4420 9336 4413 9338 4405 9305 4419 9306 $$ KAT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 7:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Rice | 29 min |
| Aug 24, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice, Steele | 62 min |
| Aug 24, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth | 31 min |
| Aug 24, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Waseca | 62 min |
| Aug 24, 8:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Waseca | 65 min |
| Aug 24, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 30 min |
| Aug 24, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Steele | 40 min |
| Aug 24, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 61 min |
| Aug 24, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope | 31 min |
| Aug 24, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 63 min |
| Aug 24, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 56 min |
| Aug 24, 11:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Sherburne, Stearns | 67 min |
| Aug 24, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Steele | 60 min |
| Aug 24, 11:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Martin | 57 min |
| Aug 25, 12:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Isanti | 59 min |
| Aug 25, 12:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault | 67 min |
| Aug 25, 12:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago | 28 min |
| Aug 25, 1:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 117 min |
| Aug 25, 1:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue | 39 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.