Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 1986, 6:52 PM CDT for McLeod County, Meeker County, Wright County, Minnesota. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 12, 1986, 6:52 PM CDT (23:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 1986, 7:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Wright 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
Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 651 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMSP 122352 SVRMSP MNC085-171-093-130050- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 652 PM CDT SAT JUL 12 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 750 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA...MCLEOD...WRIGHT AND EASTERN MEEKER AT.....650 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH 1 INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC IN LITCHFIELD MINNESOTA. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 40 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN HUTCHINSON..BUFFALO AND GLENCOE SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY APPROACH. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE STRONG DAMAGING WINDS..LARGE HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES. 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. HARRISON
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 12, 4:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST CLOUD MN 430 PM CDT SAT JUL 12 1986. ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA... AT 430 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A LINEE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMSn IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA EXTENDING FROM WADENA TO ALEXANDRIA TO ORTONVILLE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN..SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. FRASER
Special weather statement, Jul 12, 5:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST CLOUD MN 520 PM CDT SAT JUL 12 1986. ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA... AT 520 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA EXTENDING FROM BRAINERD TO SAUK CENTRE TO BENSON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAD PRODUCED VERY HEAVY RAIN .. SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. FRASER
Special weather statement, Jul 12, 5:55 PM CDT, 57 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN 550 PM CDT SAT JUL 12 1986 AT 530 PM CDT..RAIN CONTINUED TO DECREASE IN AREA AND INTENSITY OVER NORTHEAST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST WISCONSIN GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM RUSH CITY MINNESOTA TO MERCER WISCONSIN. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR. MEANWHILE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED INCREASING IN INTENSITY OVER WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA INTO CENTRAL MINNESOTA. THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDWRSTORMS STRETCHED FROM NEAR LEECH LAKE SOUTH TO ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF GARRISON ON LAKE MILLE LACS SOUTHWEST TO ABOUT 40 MILES NORTH OF MARSHALL MINNESOTA. REPORTS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS ALONG WITH SMALL HAIL HAVE BEEN RECIEVED SINCE 430 PM FROM THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WHICH WERE LIKELY PRODUCING SMALL HAIL.. GUSTY WINDS..AND VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE LOCATED ABOUT 15 MILES EAST OF GLENWOOD AND ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF GLENWOOD AND NEAR BENSON IN WEST CEBTRAL MINNESOTA. PERSONS ENGAGED IN OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES AND ON LAKES IN AREAS IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THE APPROACHING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. LRS
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.