Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 22, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Sep 16, 2006, 10:04 PM CDT for Anoka County, Minnesota. It was in force for 26 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, 10:04 PM CDT (03:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 2006, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Anoka County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:06 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, 10:30 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Ramsey, MN | TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN. |
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, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 46 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 170304 TORMPX MNC003-170330- /O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0022.060917T0304Z-060917T0330Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1004 PM CDT SAT SEP 16 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ANOKA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 1030 PM CDT * AT 1002 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WAS NEAR RAMSEY...OR ABOUT 21 MILES NORTHWEST OF MINNEAPOLIS...AND MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ANOKA... ANDOVER... CEDAR... RAMSEY... COON RAPIDS... 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 4524 9352 4521 9345 4519 9332 4534 9325 $$ TDK
The 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, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Redwood, Yellow Medicine | 24 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, 10:29 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 |
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.