Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Twin Cities, MN

Issued

Jul 5, 1986, 5:17 PM CDT (22:17 UTC)

Expired

Jul 5, 1986, 6:10 PM CDT

In force

53 min

Issued by

NWS Twin Cities, MN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Carver County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Wright County, MN

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

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN
517 PM CDT SAT JUL 5 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 610 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES OF

CENTRAL MINNESOTA...EASTERN WRIGHT...NORTHERN CARVER AND WESTERN 
 HENNEPIN

AT 5.05 PM CDT...50 TO 60 MPH WIND WAS REPORTED AT HOWARD LAKE
MINNESOTA OF SOUTH CENTRAL WRIGHT COUNTY.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WEST OF THE TWIN CITIES FROM ANNANDALE TO
JUST WEST OF WATERTOWN TO NEAR NORWOOD MINNESOTA WERE RAPIDLY
NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR AND ARE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE STRONG
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 MILES AN HOUR...HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING.
SOME CITIES IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS ARE DELANO...MINNETONKA...
AND WATERTOWN MINNESOTA.

REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE STRONG DAMAGING WINDS..LARGE
HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIK^ES. ALSO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN
AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING..SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF
SAFETY IF ONE IS SPOTTED.

MILLER

In the hours before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST CLOUD MN
345 PM CDT SAT JUL 5 1986.

...TORNADO WATCH 400 PM CDT TO 1000  PM CDT...
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA...

AT 345 PM CDT RADAR  SHOWED A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA EXTENDING FROM BRAINERD TO WILMAR.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN..HAIL
AND VERY GUSTY WINDS.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED YOU SHOULD BE PREPARED
TO GO TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.

YOUNG/FRASER

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

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.