Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 1992, 7:15 AM CDT for Anoka County, Minnesota. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 19, 1992, 7:15 AM CDT (12:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 1992, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Anoka County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 12:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 55 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
- 1432 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMSP 191226 SVRMSP MNC003-191300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 715 AM CDT SUN JUL 19 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MINNEAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA ...ANOKA COUNTY AT 713 AM CDT...WEATHER RADAR WAS INDICATING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF ANOKA OR 18 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF DOWNTOWN MINNEAPOLIS. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE AFFECTING AREAS NEAR ANOKA...COON RAPIDS AND BLAINE. 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 RJN
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, Jul 19, 6:51 AM CDT, 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN 645 AM CDT SUN JUL 19 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO EASTERN MINNESOTA... THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS HAVE BEEN FORMING SOUTHEAST OF ST CLOUD ACROSS WESTERN SHERBURNE AND WRIGHT COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED AT 640 AM FROM AROUND CLEAR LAKE TO JUST NORTHWEST OF BUFFALO. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES AS WELL AS GUSTY WINDS AS THEY MOVE INTO AREAS FROM PRINCETON TO ELK RIVER...TO NEAR ROCKFORD BY 730 AM. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO SPREAD EAST ACROSS A LARGE PART OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN MINNESOTA AS WELL AS NORTHWEST WISCONSIN GENERALLY FROM DULUTH AND HAYWARD TO JUST SOUTHWEST OF MINNEAPOLIS. KVS
Nearby
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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.