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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Sep 23, 2006, 3:03 PM CDT for Saint Croix County, Wisconsin; Washington County, Minnesota. It was in force for 27 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 23, 2006, 3:03 PM CDT (20:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 23, 2006, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Washington County, MN, Saint Croix County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 498 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 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 232004 TORMPX MNC163-WIC109-232030- /O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0025.060923T2003Z-060923T2030Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 303 PM CDT SAT SEP 23 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... ST. CROIX COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN... * UNTIL 330 PM CDT * AT 259 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A ROTATING WALL CLOUD NEAR HUDSON...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF RIVER FALLS. RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE STORM ..AND THIS DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... HUDSON... INTERSTATE 94 NEAR LAKELAND... 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. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 4503 9275 4500 9288 4493 9283 4497 9270 $$ LS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 2:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Saint Croix | 23 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Wisconsin, 2006Tornado Warnings in Minnesota, 2006Every tornado warning in 2006Tornadoes in 2006
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.