Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 15, 1992, 7:22 PM CDT for Rice County, Minnesota. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 15, 1992, 7:22 PM CDT (00:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 15, 1992, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rice County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 1883 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 717 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 350 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 456 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.8
- Supercell composite
- 8.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRST 160023 SVRRST MNC131-160100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN 722 PM CDT TUE SEP 15 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ROCHESTER MN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA ...NORTHERN RICE COUNTY AT 715 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED NEAR LONGSDALE...WHICH IS 38 MILES NORTHEAST OF MAKATO. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. CITIES AND TOWN IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE... LONGSDALE...LITTLE CHICAGO...AND DUNDUS. HEAVY RAINFALL...DAMAGING LIGHTNING...LARGE HAIL...ARE POSSIBLE. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. BE ON THE LOOKOUT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNI6NG...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. TESKE
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, 1 hour 3 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, 58 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, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice | 29 min |
| Sep 15, 10:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Dakota, Hennepin, Scott | 4 hr |
| Sep 16, 2:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Dakota, Hennepin, Scott | 116 min |
| Sep 16, 3:22 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 38 min |
| Sep 16, 3:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Olmsted | 43 min |
| Sep 16, 5:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Mille Lacs | 18 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.