Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 764
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Sep 7, 2006, 5:33 PM CDT for 20 counties in Minnesota; 5 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 7, 2006, 5:33 PM CDT (22:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 2006, 8:01 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 25 counties
Aitkin County, MN, Becker County, MN, Beltrami County, MN, Carlton County, MN, Cass County, MN, Clay County, MN, Clearwater County, MN, Cook County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN, Grant County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Itasca County, MN, Koochiching County, MN, Lake County, MN, Mahnomen County, MN, Norman County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Saint Louis County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Barnes County, ND, Cass County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 168 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 5%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 20%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cass | 56 min |
| Sep 7, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes | 62 min |
| Sep 7, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom, Sargent | 61 min |
| Sep 7, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami | 29 min |
| Sep 7, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes | 33 min |
| Sep 7, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Sargent | 34 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -215 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1787 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 3:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beltrami, Clearwater, Itasca, Koochiching, Mahnomen, Pennington and 3 more | 116 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, 2006Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Dakota, 2006Every severe thunderstorm watch 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.