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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Twin Cities, MN

April 23, 1990Meeker County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 1990, 11:30 PM CDT for Meeker County, Minnesota. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 23, 1990, 11:30 PM CDT (04:30 UTC)
Expired
Apr 24, 1990, 12:15 AM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

County Meeker 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, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 79 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 1990-04-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 239 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 1990-04-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 152 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
239 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-134 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1685 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
152 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
224 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 24, 8:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMorrison53 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990

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.