Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1988, 5:55 PM CDT for Sherburne County, Minnesota. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 15, 1988, 5:55 PM CDT (22:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 1988, 8:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sherburne 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 67 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
- 3618 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -261 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1179 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 309 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 286 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTC 152314 COR SVRSTC MNC141-160030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED...CORR TO DATE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST CLOUD MN 555 PM CDT FRI JUL 15 1988 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA: EASTERN HALF OF SHERBURNE...INCLUDING THE CITIES OF PRINCETON... ZIMMERMAN...ORROK...AND SANTIAGO. AT 550 PM CDT THE RADIO STATION AT PRINCETON MINNESOTA...20 MILES NORTH OF ELK RIVER IN EASTERN SHERBURNE COUNTY REPORTED THREE QUARTER TO ONE INCH HAIL IN AND NEAR THE CITY OF PRINCETON. THIS DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MILES PER HOUR. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. BOATERS SHOULD MOVE OFF LAKES TO NEARBY SHELTER. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE STRONG BUILDINGS BUT S]TAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. TRIPLETT
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 15, 5:21 PM CDT, 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL 520 PM CDT FRI JUL 15 1988 ...A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTOMS EXTENDS ACROSS NORTHWEST WISCONSIN INTO CENTRAL MINNESOTA... IN MINNESOTA...SOME OF THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ACROSS BENTON...SOUTHERN MILLE LACS...AND INTO KANABEC COUNTIES. THIS IS ABOUT 60 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF THE TWIN CITIES. SOME OF THE CITIES NEAR THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE FOLEY...MILACA...AND MORA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF PRODUCING HAIL...AND PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN AS THEY MOVE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR DANBURY WISCONSIN IN NORTHERN BURNETT COUNTY EAST ACROSS NORTHWEST WISCONSIN. BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF THREATENING WEATHER AND TAKE SHELTER IF IT APPROACHES YOU. BY 600 PM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE PUSHING ACROSS SHERBURNE AND ISANTI COUNTIES OF E&AST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. PAULSON
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 5:32 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST CLOUD MN 525 PM CDT FRI JUL 15 1988 SHORTLY ATER 5:15 PM CDT THIS FRIDAY AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS FORMED IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL COVER PORTIONS OF BENTON...SOUTHERN MILLE LACS...AND CENTRAL AND EASTERN SHERBURNE COUNTIES OF EAST CENTAL MINNESOTA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE WILL PRODUNCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTING STRIKES. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED AT THIS TIME. BRIEF SMALL HAIL WAS REPORTED IN THE CITY OF FOLEY MINNESOTA IN BENTON COUNTY AS THE THUNDERSTORMS PASSED THROUGH THAT AREA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES PER HOUR. TRIPLET0T
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 5:35 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST CLOUD MN 525 PM CDT FRI JUL 15 1988 SHORTLY ATER 5:15 PM CDT THIS FRIDAY AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS FORMED IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL COVER PORTIONS OF BENTON...SOUTHERN MILLE LACS...AND CENTRAL AND EASTERN SHERBURNE COUNTIES OF EAST CENTAL MINNESOTA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTING STRIKES. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN4 REPORTED AT THIS TIME. BRIEF SMALL HAIL WAS REPORTED IN THE CITY OF FOLEY MINNESOTA IN BENTON COUNTY AS THE THUNDERSTORMS PASSED THROUGH THAT AREA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES PER HOUR. TRIPLETT
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 5:52 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL 550 PM CDT FRI JUL 15 1988 ...A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTOMS EXTENDS ACROSS NORTHWEST WISCONSIN INTO CENTRAL MINNESOTA... IN MINNESOTA...SOME OF THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS ARE ACROSS EXTREMES SOUTHEAST BENTON AND SOUTHERN MILLE LACS COUNTIES. THIS IS ABOUT 50BOUT MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF DOWNTOWN MINNEAPOLIS...OR 15 MILES EAST OF ST. CLOUD. SOME OF THE CITIES NEAR THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRINCETON...GLENDORADO...AND SANTIAGO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE SLIDING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR AND HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF PRODUCING HAIL...STRONG WIND...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. BY 615 PM CDT VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO MOVE ACROSS ISANTI...SOUTHERN KANABEC...SHERBURN...AND NORTHENR WRIGHT OF OF EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. SOME OF THE CITIES IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE ELK RIVER...CAMBRIDGE...AND BRAHAM. IN WISCONSIN..B.VERY STORNG THUNDERSTORMS ALSO CONTINUE ACROSS NORTHWEST WISCONSIN. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOU SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. PAULSON
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.