Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1988, 5:11 PM CDT for Le Sueur County, Nicollet County, Minnesota. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 1988, 5:11 PM CDT (22:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1988, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Le Sueur County, MN, Nicollet 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 63 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
- 1394 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -219 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1516 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMSP 192212
SVRRST
MNC079-103-192315-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MINNESOTA
ISSUED BY MINNEAPOLIS MN
511 PM CDT SUN JUN 19 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
...LESUEUR...EASTERN NICOLLET
AT 500 PM GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED NEAR LEXINGTON MINNESOTA
ABOUT 22 MILES NORTHEAST OF MANKATO MINNESOTA. RADAR ALSO INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR NEW SWEDEN MINNESOTA..ABOUT 16 MILES
NORTHWEST OF MANKATO AND AT ST THOMAS MINNESOTA ABOUT 24 MILES
NORTHEAST OF MANKATO MINNESOTA. CITIES IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS ARE
ST PETER AND LECENTER MINNESOTA.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM 3ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
DOMBROWSKIWhat 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 19, 3:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST CLOUD MN 300 PM CDT SUN JUN 19 1988 AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM CONTINUES TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTH CENTRAL SHERBURNE COUNTY...ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTH SOUTHESAST OF ST CLOUD MINNESOTA. AT 255 PM CDT THE SHERBURNE COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICE REPORTED HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL AT ORROCK...WHICH IS 21 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ST CLOUD MINNEOSTA. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST 25 TO 30 MPH. RUBIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Washington | 55 min |
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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.