Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 1989, 2:04 PM CDT for Faribault County, Freeborn County, Minnesota. It was in force for 26 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 1989, 2:04 PM CDT (19:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 1989, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Faribault County, MN, Freeborn 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1227 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 300 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 231904
SVRRST
MNC043-047-231930-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN
204 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF MINNESOTA
SOUTHERN FARIBAULT...SOUTHERN FREEBORN
AT 150 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR BRICELYN
MN...20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ALBERT LEA MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING ARE FAIRMONT...BRICELYN AND
ALBERT LEA.
IF YOU ARE IN AN AREA THREATENED BY THE STORM...GO TO A REINFORCED
SHELTER AND PREPARE FOR DAMAGINbG WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY
RAIN...AND LIGHTNING.
BUSSWhat 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, May 23, 2:00 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN 155 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 1989 ..SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS BUILDING OVER EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA.. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR AREAS OF SOUTHERN FARIBAULT AND FREEBORN COUNTIES OF EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA UNTIL 230 PM. AT 145 PM..WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND NORTH OF THE IOWA BORDER NEAR THE TOWN OF BRICELYN WHICH IS ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF ALBERT LEA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE WARNED AREAS SHOULD BE MOVING TO A PLACE OF SAFETY AS THE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH FROM THE WEST. ELSEWHERE..STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING OVER EXTREME NORTHWEST WISCONSIN BETWEEN HAYWARD AND SUPERIOR. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER WIDELY SCATTERED LIGHT RAINSHOWERS PERSISTED OVER SOUTHERNZ MINNESOTA FROM NEAR OWATONNA TO NEAR WILLMAR. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue, Rice | 43 min |
| May 23, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota | 31 min |
| May 23, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Martin | 35 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.