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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 141, NWS Twin Cities, MN

July 30, 1986Big Stone County, Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 30, 1986, 2:00 AM CDT for Big Stone County, Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 30, 1986, 2:00 AM CDT (07:00 UTC)
Expired
Jul 30, 1986, 3:00 AM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Big Stone County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KHON), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 169 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 1986-07-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3602 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 1986-07-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 103 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
3602 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1336 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
243 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
3.5
Supercell composite
24.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 30, 12:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXYellow Medicine43 min
Jul 30, 2:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRedwood56 min
Jul 30, 2:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXChippewa, Lac qui Parle, Pope, Swift38 min
Jul 30, 2:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXYellow Medicine38 min
Jul 30, 3:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXChippewa, Kandiyohi45 min
Jul 30, 3:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXYellow Medicine45 min
Jul 30, 3:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRedwood, Renville26 min
Jul 30, 5:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBrown, Nicollet46 min
Jul 30, 5:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBlue Earth, Le Sueur52 min
Jul 30, 7:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXOlmsted, Wabasha, Winona38 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986

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.