Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1988, 6:34 PM CDT for Steele County, Minnesota. It was in force for 16 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 1988, 6:34 PM CDT (23:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1988, 6:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 16 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Steele 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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -361 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1581 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 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 KRST 142334
SVRRST
MNC147-049-039-150015-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN
634 PM CDT TUE JUN 14 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF MINNESOTA
NORTHEAST STEELE...
IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF MINNESOTA
SOUTHERN GOODHUE...NORTHERN DODGE...
THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE TOWNS OF WEST CONCORD AND ZUMBROTA..21
MILES NW OF ROCHESTER, MN.
IF YOU ARE IN AN AREA THREATENED BY THE STORM...GO TO A REINFORCED
SHELTER AND PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY
RAIN...AND LIGHTNING.
STATE PATROL REPORTS PEA SIZE HAIL NEAR OWATONNA MN..34 MI NW OF
ROCHESTER. THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.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, Jun 14, 4:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN 445 PM CDT TUE JUN 14 1988 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF EASTERN MINNESOTA AND PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN UNTIL 9 PM CDT.... AT 430 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP OVER EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA.THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR STILLWATER 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF THE TWIN CITIES AND NORTHWEST OF OWATONNA AND SOUTHEAST OF MANKATO. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED BUT VERY HEAVY RAINS...AND SMALL HAIL CAN EXPECTED WITH STORMS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORMS WERE PART OF AN AREA OF SCATTEREaD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST SECTIONS OF MINNESOTA AND EXTENDED INTO NORTHWEST WISCONSIN. STANDFIELD
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 5:43 PM CDT, 51 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN 545 PM CDT TUE JUN 14 1988 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF EASTERN MINNESOTA AND PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN UNTIL 9 PM CDT.... AT 526 PM CDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM NORTHWEST WISCONSIN INTO EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF RICE LAKE NEAR SPOONER IN NORTHWEST WISCONSIN...SOUTH OF HASTINGS...NEAR KENYON AND OVER OWATONNA IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THE STORMS BUT BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED AS THE STORMS MOVE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORMS WERE PART OF AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM MANKATO TO AITKIN AND OVER INTO WISCONSIN TO NEAR HAYWARD.
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 5:52 PM CDT, 42 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN
550 PM CDT TUE JUN 14 1988
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 223 CONTINUES FOR A SMALL PART OF THE
MINNESOTA ARROWHEAD AND FOR SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA...
A COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH MINNESOTA HAS ENDED THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM THREAT FOR PARTS OF EASTERN MINNESOTA. AREAS WHICH
ARE NO LONGER IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ARE THE TWIN CITIES...
MANKATO...AND DULUTH.
THE COUNTIES STILL INCLUDED IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL
9 PM CDT ARE:
SOUTH CENTRAL......RICE..WASECA..STEELE..FARIBAULT..FREEBORN
SOUTHEAST..........GOODHUE..WABASHA..DODGE..OLMSTEAD..WINONA..MOWER..
FILLMORE..HOUSTON
BRANCHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 1:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Stearns | 62 min |
| Jun 14, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dodge, Goodhue | 41 min |
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.