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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 19, 1991Dodge County, Mower County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1991, 7:03 PM CDT for Dodge County, Mower County, Minnesota. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 19, 1991, 7:03 PM CDT (00:03 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 1991, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Dodge County, MN, Mower County, MN

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 128 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 1991-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1991-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 126 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1629 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
126 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
234 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KRST 200004
SVRRST
MNC039-099-200045-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN
703 PM CDT WED JUN 19 1991
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ROCHESTER MN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING     EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA
 
   ...SOUTHERN DODGE COUNTY...NORTHERN MOWER COUNTY
 
AT 700 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
10 MILES NORTH OF AUSTIN IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA.
THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH TOWARD
BROWNSDALE...HAYFIELD...WALTHAM...AND VERNON.
 
CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WARNING ARE BROWNSDALE...
HAYFIELD...WALTHAM...AND VERNON MINNESOTA.
 
THIS THUNDERSTORM PRODUCED HAIL 1 INCH TO 1 1/2 INCHES
IN DIAMETER WEST OF AUSTIN NEAR OAKDALE.  HAIL 3/8 INCH
TO 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER WAS REPORTED IN THE CITY OF
AUSTIN.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE ADVANCE WARNING
 
SCS/JEB

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, Jun 19, 6:16 PM CDT, 47 minutes before
MNZ014-013-200015-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST CLOUD MINNESOTA
616 PM CDT WED JUN 19 1991

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA UNTIL 10 PM...

AT 610 PM CDT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER WEST
CENTRAL MINNESOTA. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED. THERE HAS
BEEN SEVERE WEATHER IN NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA AND THE STORMS WHICH
PRODUCED IT WILL BE PUSHING NORTHEAST INTO MINNESOTA THROUGH THE
EVENING HOURS. RADAR INDICATES THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DIMINISHED
IN STRENGTH AS THEY PUSH EAST.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH. THE STORMS
WILL BE MOVING THROUGH...ALEXANDRIA...GLENWOOD...BENSON AND WILLMAR
BY 630 PM CDT.

NNNN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 8:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRedwood28 min
Jun 19, 9:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBrown, Nicollet50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 1991Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1991

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.