Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 31, 1989, 8:18 PM CDT for Faribault County, Martin County, Minnesota. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 31, 1989, 8:18 PM CDT (01:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 1989, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Faribault County, MN, Martin 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 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 595 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 290 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KRST 010118
SVRRST
MNC043-091-010145-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN
818 PM CDT THU AUG 31 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ROCHESTER HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
...FARIBAULT...EASTERN MARTIN
AT 8 PM CDT BASEBALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN FAIRMONT. THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING THIS LARGE HAIL WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN
HOUR.
CITIES INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING ARE...FAIRMONT AND BLUE EARTH.
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. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
DOM/EFFERTZWhat 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, Aug 31, 3:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN 250 PM CDT THU AUG 31 1989 STRONG AND IN SOME CASES SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE REGENERATED FROM NEAR ST CLOUD TO JUST NORTH OF ANNANDALE ACROSS EASTERN STEARNS AND FAR NORTHERN WRIGHT COUNTY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF STEARNS.. SHERBURNE AND BENTON COUNTIES UNTIL 330 PM. AT 245 PM..THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR LITCHFIELD AND ANNANDALE TO ST CLOUD AND ON FURTHER EAST TOWARD CAMBRIDGE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR BUT THE MOST RECENT DEVELOPMENT HAS BEEN ALONG THE SOUTHWEST PORTION OF THE AREA ACROSS WRIGHT AND MEEKER COUNTIES OR IN ARE[AS NORTHWEST OF MINNEAPOLIS. PERSONS IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA SHOULD KEEP ABREAST OF THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Local storm report, Aug 31, 5:34 PM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS, MN
534 PM CDT THU AUG 31 1989
3:47 PM TREES DOWN IN BUFFALO MINNESOTA
3:54 PM 1-11/2 HAIL IN HANOVER MINNESOTA
3:55 PM BASEBALL HAIL NEAR ST. MICHEAL MINNESOTA
4:01 PM PUBLIC REPORT OF FUNNEL CLOUD FOREST LAKE MINNESOTA
4:15 PM GOLFBALL HAIL TWIN CITIES SUBURB OFMAPLE GROVE MINNESOTA
4:20 PM PING PONG HAIL MAPLE GROVE MINNESOTA
4:24 PM 1 INCH HAIL MEDINA MINNESOTA
4:25 PM POSSIBLE TORNADO BROOKLYN PARK MINNESOTA BY SHERIFF
4:25 PM GOLFBALL HAIL HIGHWAY 94 AND 694 MINNEAPOLIS
4:28 PM 1-11/2 HAIL OSSEO AND MAPLE GROVE AREAS OF THE TWIN CITIES
4:32 PM 11/2 HAIL NEW HOPE MINNESOTA
4:34 PM 11/2 HAIL 49TH AND BOOIN IN THE TWIN CITIES SUBURB OF NEW HOPE
4:52 PM 11/2 HAIL BROOKLYN PARK MINNESOTA
5:00 PM 1/2 HAIL ST ANTHONY MINNESOTA
5:00 PM DIME SIZE HAIL UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
5:12 PM 1 INCH HAIL DOWNTOWN ST PAUL
5:11 PM 3/4 HAIL ST PAUL AIRPORT
5:14 PM 1-11/2 OF GOLF BgALL HAIL ON GROUND AREA OF STATE FAIR IN
ST PAUL MINNESOTASpecial weather statement, Aug 31, 6:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN 620 PN CDT THU AUG 31 1989 ...CANCELLATION OF PART OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 704... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CLEARED THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 704 ISSUED EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON. THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN CLEARED FROM THE WATCH... WEST CENTRAL...SWIFT..CHIPPEWA..YELLOW MEDICINE..LAC QUI PARLE.. CENTRAL........KANDIYOHI..MEEKER..NORTHWEST RENVILLE.. SOUTHWEST......LINCOLN..LYON..PIPESTONE..NORTHWEST MURRAY.. JHM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn | 39 min |
| Aug 31, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dodge, Mower, Olmsted | 37 min |
| Aug 31, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Steele | 37 min |
| Aug 31, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope | 34 min |
| Aug 31, 11:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod | 39 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 1989Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989
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.