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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Twin Cities, MN

August 17, 1992Pope County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 1992, 1:02 PM CDT for Pope County, Minnesota. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 17, 1992, 1:02 PM CDT (18:02 UTC)
Expired
Aug 17, 1992, 1:45 PM CDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

County Pope County, MN

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 166 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 12:00Z on 1992-08-17Temperature 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 12:00Z on 1992-08-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
671 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
93 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 KSTC 171802
SVRSTC
MNC121-171845-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST CLOUD MINNESOTA
102 PM CDT MON AUG 17 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST CLOUD MINNESOTA  HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  145 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
 
   ...POPE COUNTY
 
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF TERRACE...SEDAN AND BROOTEN.
 
AT 1255 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTH
OF GLENWOOD OR 35 MILES SOUTH OF ALEXANDRIA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE CITIES OF TERRACE AND SEDAN
BY 115 PM AND BROOTEN BY 130 PM.
 
 
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 IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
NNNN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 17, 1:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXKandiyohi32 min
Aug 17, 1:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBig Stone49 min
Aug 17, 2:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXKandiyohi27 min

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.