Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 15, 1992, 6:49 PM CDT for Scott County, Minnesota. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 15, 1992, 6:49 PM CDT (23:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 15, 1992, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Scott County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 23 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
- 15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -382 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 606 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 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 KMSP 152349 SVRMSP MNC139-160045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 649 PM CDT TUE SEP 15 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MINNEAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA ...SCOTT COUNTY AT 645 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DOWNTOWN MINNEAPOLIS...NEAR THE TOWN OF NEW PRAUGUE. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE APPROACHING THE ST PATRICK...LYDIA AND PRIOR LAKE AREAS BY 7 PM. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. PERSONS IN SCOTT COUNTY SHOULD MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. DWE/MBM
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 15, 6:19 PM CDT, 30 minutes before
MNZ012-014-015-016-017-018-019-WIZ003-006-150100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 618 PM CDT TUE SEP 15 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING MOVING ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL MINNESOTA... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...WERE MOVING THROUGH PARTS OF SOUTHERN MINNESOTA. AT 615 PM...THE 25 MILE WIDE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING THE HEAVIEST RAIN...WAS LOCATED FROM ST PETER ...ACROSS THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES OF THE TWIN CITIES METRO AREA FROM JORDAN TO FARMINGTON AND THEN SOUTHEAST TO CANNON FALLS AND ZUMBRO FALLS. PRESENT MOVEMENT OF NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH WILL BRING THE THUNDERSTORMS TO THE HEART OF THE DOWNTOWN TWIN CITIES AREA BETWEEN 630 AND 645 PM. ALONG WITH THE HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES WERE ALSO OCCURRING WITH THE STORMS. ANYONE ON AREA LAKES OR PERSONS ENGAGED IN OTHER OUTDOOR ACTVITIES SHOULD MOVE INDOORS WHEN THE STORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA. < PERSONS IN WESTERN WISCOSNIN WILL SEE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE ST CROIX FALLS...RIVER FALLS AND ELLSWORTH AREAS BY 7 PM THIS EVENING. DWE
Special weather statement, Sep 15, 6:24 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
MNZ012-014-015-016-017-018-019-WIZ003-006-150100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED THIRD PARAGRAPH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 618 PM CDT TUE SEP 15 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING MOVING ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL MINNESOTA... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...WERE MOVING THROUGH PARTS OF SOUTHERN MINNESOTA. AT 615 PM...THE 25 MILE WIDE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING THE HEAVIEST RAIN...WAS LOCATED FROM ST PETER ...ACROSS THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES OF THE TWIN CITIES METRO AREA FROM JORDAN TO FARMINGTON AND THEN SOUTHEAST TO CANNON FALLS AND ZUMBRO FALLS. PRESENT MOVEMENT OF NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH WILL BRING THE THUNDERSTORMS TO THE HEART OF THE DOWNTOWN TWIN CITIES AREA BETWEEN 630 AND 645 PM. ALONG WITH THE HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES WERE ALSO OCCURRING WITH THE STORMS. ANYONE ON AREA LAKES OR PERSONS ENGAGED IN OTHER OUTDOOR ACTVITIES SHOULD MOVE INDOORS WHEN THE STORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA. < PERSONS IN WESTERN WISCONSIN WILL SEE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE ST CROIX FALLS...RIVER FALLS AND ELLSWORTH AREAS BY 7 PM THIS EVENING. DWE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur | 39 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.