Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 1992, 6:04 PM CDT for Brown County, Nicollet County, Minnesota. It was in force for 26 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 2, 1992, 6:04 PM CDT (23:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 1992, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Brown County, MN, Nicollet County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 575 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRST 022306 SVRRST MNC015-103-022330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN 604 PM CDT WED SEP 2 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ROCHESTER MN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA ...BROWN COUNTY...WESTERN NICOLLET COUNTY AT 600 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR FORT RIDGELY STATE PARK...43 MILES NORTHWEST OF MANKATO. MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORM WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...NEW ULM...SLEEPY EYE AND ST GEORGE. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING..MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOS WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING.
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, Sep 2, 3:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
MNZALL-022200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS ST PAUL MN 343 PM CDT WED SEP 2 1992 ...TORNADO WARNING FOR POPE COUNTY UNTIL 4 PM... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPED RAPIDLY OVER POPE COUNTY SINCE 3 PM AND PRODUCED A TORNADO IN THE VICINITY OF CYRUS...ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ALEXANDRIA SHORTLY AFTER 3 PM. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR GLENWOOD AT 329 PM AND WILL BE AFFECTING THE COMMUNITY OF BROOTEN BY 4 PM. PERSONS IN EASTERN POPE COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER NOW. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ACROSS SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN EAST OF A LINE FROM CHETHEK WISCONSIN TO ROCHESTER IN MINNESOTA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. DWE
Special weather statement, Sep 2, 4:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
MNZALL-022245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 440 PM CDT WED SEP 2 1992 ...TORNADO WARNING FOR ALL OF KANDIYOHI AND MEEKER COUNTY UNTIL 5 PM... A TORNADO PRODUCING THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL PORTIONS OF KANDIYOHI...IN THE VICINITY OF WILLMAR. THE STORM PRODUCING THE TORNADO WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE A AFFECTING THE AREA BETWEEN COSMOS AND OLIVIA BETWEEN 5 AND 5 30 PM. ALSO...RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS OCCURRING OVER WESTERN RENVILLE COUNTY AT 435 PM. THESE STORMS WERE ALSO MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN MCLEOD AND RENVILLE COUNTY SHOULD PREPARE TO MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER WHEN ThHESE STORMS MOVE INTO YOUR AREA. LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ABOUT THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE STATE UNTIL 9 PM. DWE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 3:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Pope | 35 min |
| Sep 2, 3:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Stearns, Swift | 34 min |
| Sep 2, 4:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker | 24 min |
| Sep 2, 5:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker | 25 min |
| Sep 2, 5:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | McLeod, Renville | 42 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992
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.