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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Sep 16, 2006, 10:56 PM CDT for Anoka County, Hennepin County, Minnesota. It was in force for 34 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
- Sep 16, 2006, 10:56 PM CDT (03:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 2006, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Anoka County, MN, Hennepin County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:57 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 5:07 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 36 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 170358 TORMPX MNC003-053-170430- /O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0023.060917T0356Z-060917T0430Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1056 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... HENNEPIN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 1130 PM CDT * AT 1053 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WAS NEAR OSSEO... OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF MINNEAPOLIS...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... COON RAPIDS... BROOKLYN PARK... CHAMPLIN... OSSEO... BLAINE... 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. LAT...LON 4507 9351 4508 9324 4521 9320 4521 9342 $$ TDK
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 170412 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1110 PM CDT SAT SEP 16 2006 MNC053-170430- /O.CAN.KMPX.TO.W.0023.000000T0000Z-060917T0430Z/ HENNEPIN MN- 1110 PM CDT SAT SEP 16 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR HENNEPIN COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE STORM THAT WAS SHOWING VERY STRONG ROTATION HAS NORTHEAST OUT OF BROOKLYN PARK... AND OUT OF HENNEPIN COUNTY. THEREFORE THE WARNING FOR HENNEPIN COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHERN MINNESOTA. LAT...LON 4517 9332 4508 9324 4521 9320 4521 9342 $$ MNC003-170430- /O.CON.KMPX.TO.W.0023.000000T0000Z-060917T0430Z/ ANOKA MN- 1110 PM CDT SAT SEP 16 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1130 PM CDT FOR ANOKA COUNTY... AT 1110 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR COON RAPIDS...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTH OF MINNEAPOLIS...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BLAINE AND HAM LAKE. 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. LAT...LON 4517 9332 4508 9324 4521 9320 4521 9342 $$
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, 10:04 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.