Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Twin Cities, MN

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.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN
300 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 1989

...SEVERE WEATHER A GOOD POSSIBILITY IN MINNESOTA THROUGH WEDNESDAY...

SPRING HAS BEEN QUIET ACROSS MINNESOTA WHEN IT COMES TO SEVERE
WEATHER...BUT THAT IS ABOUT TO CHANGE DRAMATICALLY.  A COMBINATION
OF WARM HUMID AIR FLOWING INTO MINNESOTA...A STRONG JET STREAM
APPROACHING FROM THE WEST...AND A DEVELOPING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER
NEBRASKA ARE ON A COLLISION COURSE.  ALL THE PROPER INGREDIENTS ARE
EXPECTED TO COME TOGETHER TONIGHT OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MINNESOTA.

THIS METEOROLOGICAL BREW COULD PRODUCE SOME VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
TONIGHT WITH VERY HIGH WINDS...LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...AND THERE
MAY BE A TORNADO OR TWO.  NORMALLY THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY
EVENING ARE THE PRIME TIME FOR SEVERE WEATHER...BUT IN THIS SITUATION
VIOLENT THUNDERSTORMS ARE A GOOD POSSIBILITY WELL AFTER DARK.

SINCE IT HAS BEEN A COUPLE OF YEARS SINCE MINNESOTA HAS EXPERIENCED
AN OUTBREAK OF SEVERE WEATHER PERHAPS OUR GUARD IS DOWN A LITTLE
IN PREPARING FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.  THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE RECCOMMENDS YOU PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE WEATHER THIS
EVENING AND TONIGHT AND SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER MATERLIZE BE PREPARED
TO TAKE PROTECTIVE ACTION.

BY WEDNESDAY EVENING THE LOW WILL MOVE INTO MINNESOTA AND THAT COULD
TOUCH OFF ANOTHER ROUND OF SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS THE STATE WEDNESDAY
AFTERNOON AND EVENING.  IN SUMMING UP THE THE SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL
FOR THE NEXT 24 TO 30 HOURS WILL REMAIN QUITE HIGH IN MINNESOTA.

CAMPBELL

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN
300 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 1989

...SEVERE WEATHER A GOOD POSSIBILITY IN MINNESOTA THROUGH WEDNESDAY...

SPRING HAS BEEN QUIET ACROSS MINNESOTA WHEN IT COMES TO SEVERE
WEATHER...BUT THAT IS ABOUT TO CHANGE DRAMATICALLY.  A COMBINATION
OF WARM HUMID AIR FLOWING INTO MINNESOTA...A STRONG JET STREAM
APPROACHING FROM THE WEST...AND A DEVELOPING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER
NEBRASKA ARE ON A COLLISION COURSE.  ALL THE PROPER INGREDIENTS ARE
EXPECTED TO COME TOGETHER TONIGHT OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MINNESOTA.

THIS METEOROLOGICAL BREW COULD PRODUCE SOME VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
TONIGHT WITH VERY HIGH WINDS...LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...AND THERE
MAY BE A TORNADO OR TWO.  NORMALLY THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY
EVENING ARE THE PRIME TIME FOR SEVERE WEATHER...BUT IN THIS SITUATION
VIOLENT THUNDERSTORMS ARE A GOOD POSSIBILITY WELL AFTER DARK.

SINCE IT HAS BEEN A COUPLE OF YEARS SINCE MINNESOTA HAS EXPERIENCED
AN OUTBREAK OF SEVERE WEATHER PERHAPS OUR GUARD IS DOWN A LITTLE
IN PREPARING FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.  THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE RECCOMMENDS YOU PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE WEATHER THIS
EVENING AND TONIGHT AND SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER MATERLIZE BE PREPARED
TO TAKE PROTECTIVE ACTION.

BY WEDNESDAY EVENING THE LOW WILL MOVE INTO MINNESOTA AND THAT COULD
TOUCH OFF ANOTHER ROUND OF SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS THE STATE WEDNESDAY
AFTERNOON AND EVENING.  IN SUMMING UP THE THE SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL
FOR THE NEXT 24 TO 30 HOURS WILL REMAIN QUITE HIGH IN MINNESOTA.

CAMPBELL

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN
445 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 1989

AT 435 PM CDT...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL AND INTENSE RAINFALL
WAS LOCATED ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER BETWEEN WABASHA AND WINONA.

THE LINE WAS 20 MILES WIDE WITH THE MOST INTENSE STORM LOCATED JUST
SOUTH OF ALMA WISCONSIN.

OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED FROM NORTHWEST
AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN ACROSS SOUTHERN MINNESOTA.

MOVEMENT WAS EAST SPEED WAS NOT DETERMINED.
 CARLYON

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN
540 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 1989

..INTENSE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPS OVER SOUTHERN MINNESOTA..

AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM BUILDING RAPIDLY ACROSS NORTHEAST LE SEUER
AND NORTHERN RICE COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA. THIS THUNDERSTORM
WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF NEW PRAGUE OR ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF
NORTHFIELD.

VERY HEAVY RAINS..FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES..STRONG GUSTY WINDS ALONG
WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED AS THIS STORM MOVES EAST
AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

ELSEWHERE..INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER FAR WESTERN WISCONSIN
IN AREAS JUST NORTH AND NORTHEAST OF LA CROSSE. SOME OF THESE
THUNDERSTORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO GOLFBALL
SIZE.
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THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR ACROSS
PORTIONS OF BUFFALO..TREMPEALEAU AND MONROE COUNTIES.

FURTHER WEST..A NEW AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS FORMING OVER THE FAR
SOUTHWEST CORNER OF MINNESOTA.

THE MOVEMENT ON THIS NEW DEVELOPMENT HAD NOT YET BEEN DETERMINED.

CONDITIONS REMAIN VERY UNSTABLE ACROSS MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN SO
PERSONS SHOULD KEEP ABREAST OF RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER SITUATION.
SWANBERG