Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Aug 24, 2006, 7:16 PM CDT for Rice County, Minnesota. It was in force for 29 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
- Aug 24, 2006, 7:16 PM CDT (00:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2006, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Rice County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:19 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 7:27 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 E Faribault, MN | 10 INCH TREE DOWN BESIDE HWY 60. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 3:17 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 376 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 250016 TORMPX MNC131-250045- /O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0014.060825T0016Z-060825T0045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 716 PM CDT THU AUG 24 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RICE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 715 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WAS NEAR FARIBAULT... OR ABOUT OVER FARIBAULT...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... FARIBAULT... MORRISTOWN... WARSAW... RUSKIN... 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 4438 9346 4421 9348 4420 9305 4436 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, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Steele | 36 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.