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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Aug 24, 2006, 7:59 PM CDT for Blue Earth County, Minnesota. It was in force for 31 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, 7:59 PM CDT (00:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2006, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Blue Earth County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:01 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 355 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
- 4514 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1351 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 9.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KMPX 250059 TORMPX MNC013-250200- /O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0015.060825T0059Z-060825T0200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 759 PM CDT THU AUG 24 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BLUE EARTH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 757 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WAS NEAR MAPLETON... OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTH OF MANKATO...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... PEMBERTON... MAPLETON... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHERN MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. LAT...LON 4402 9405 4385 9403 4385 9377 4407 9378 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 250130 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 831 PM CDT THU AUG 24 2006 MNC013-250141- /O.CAN.KMPX.TO.W.0015.000000T0000Z-060825T0200Z/ BLUE EARTH MN- 831 PM CDT THU AUG 24 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR BLUE EARTH COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE SEVERE STORM HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHERN MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. LAT...LON 4402 9405 4385 9403 4385 9377 4407 9378 $$
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, 7:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Rice | 29 min |
| Aug 24, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice, Steele | 62 min |
| Aug 24, 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.