Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 20, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Sep 16, 2006, 7:51 PM CDT for Redwood County, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. It was in force for 24 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
- Sep 16, 2006, 7:51 PM CDT (00:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 2006, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Redwood County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:53 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 7:55 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 2 S Echo, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 5:07 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 1108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1090 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 328 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 428 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.8
- Supercell composite
- 11.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KMPX 170052
TORMPX
MNC127-173-170115-
/O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0020.060917T0051Z-060917T0115Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
751 PM CDT SAT SEP 16 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEAST YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
REDWOOD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 815 PM CDT
* AT 747 PM CDT...RADAR WAS TRACKING A SEVERE STORM WITH STRONG
ROTATION. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WAS 18 MILES WEST OF
REDWOOD FALLS...OR ABOUT 16 MILES EAST OF MARSHALL...AND MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
REDWOOD FALLS...
VESTA...
BELVIEW...
ECHO...
DELHI...
WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR
SOUTHERN MINNESOTA.
LAT...LON 4454 9558 4441 9548 4448 9509 4458 9513
4466 9524 4463 9540
$$
MTF2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS53 KMPX 170106
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
805 PM CDT SAT SEP 16 2006
MNC173-170115-
/O.CAN.KMPX.TO.W.0020.000000T0000Z-060917T0115Z/
YELLOW MEDICINE MN-
805 PM CDT SAT SEP 16 2006
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEAST YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED EAST OF YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY.
MORE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE COUNTY THROUGH THE
EVENING.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR
SOUTHERN MINNESOTA.
LAT...LON 4456 9535 4451 9534 4449 9521 4454 9497
4459 9511 4466 9524 4464 9536
$$
MNC127-170115-
/O.CON.KMPX.TO.W.0020.000000T0000Z-060917T0115Z/
REDWOOD MN-
805 PM CDT SAT SEP 16 2006
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR REDWOOD
COUNTY...
AT 802 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR DELHI...OR ABOUT 7 MILES WEST OF REDWOOD FALLS...AND
MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE REDWOOD FALLS...BELVIEW...AND DLEHI.
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OR PRODUCING ROTATING WALL CLOUDS AND LARGE
HAIL.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR
SOUTHERN MINNESOTA.
LAT...LON 4456 9535 4451 9534 4449 9521 4454 9497
4459 9511 4466 9524 4464 9536
$$
MTF000
WWUS53 KMPX 170114
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
813 PM CDT SAT SEP 16 2006
MNC127-170123-
/O.EXP.KMPX.TO.W.0020.000000T0000Z-060917T0115Z/
REDWOOD MN-
813 PM CDT SAT SEP 16 2006
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR REDWOOD COUNTY EXPIRES AT 815 PM CDT...
THE TORNADO WARNING FOR REDWOOD COUNTY HAS EXPIRED. THE STORM THAT
HAD PRODUCED THE TORNADO HAD MOVED OUT OF REDWOOD COUNTY.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR
SOUTHERN MINNESOTA.
LAT...LON 4456 9535 4451 9534 4449 9521 4454 9497
4459 9511 4466 9524 4464 9536
$$
MTFThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 47 min |
| Sep 16, 8:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Renville | 43 min |
| Sep 16, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker | 52 min |
| Sep 16, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod | 57 min |
| Sep 16, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Wright | 42 min |
| Sep 16, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Martin | 63 min |
| Sep 16, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault | 58 min |
| Sep 16, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin, Wright | 47 min |
| Sep 16, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Waseca | 46 min |
| Sep 16, 10:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Anoka | 26 min |
| Sep 16, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Chisago, Hennepin, Washington | 61 min |
| Sep 16, 10:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin | 34 min |
| Sep 16, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago | 32 min |
| Sep 16, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Steele, Waseca | 52 min |
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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.