Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Twin Cities, MN

Issued

Jun 5, 1999, 4:18 AM CDT (09:18 UTC)

Expired

Jun 5, 1999, 5:00 AM CDT

In force

42 min

Issued by

NWS Twin Cities, MN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Kandiyohi County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Renville County, MN

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

000 
TTAA00 KMPX 050925 COR
SVRMSP
MNC067-093-129-050945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
418 AM CDT SAT JUN 5 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  KANDIYOHI COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  RENVILLE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  MEEKER COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 500 AM CDT

* AT 418 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES NORTHWEST
  OF WILLMAR TO 9 MILES NORTH OF OLIVIA TO 7 MILES NORTH OF REDWOOD  
FALLS...MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  WILLMAR
  OLIVIA
  

THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS...STAY INDOORS AWAY
FROM WINDOWS.

NWS Twin Cities, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 5, 3:39 AM CDT, 39 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
339 AM CDT SAT JUN 5 1999

THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX MOVING ACROSS THE WESTERN AND NORTHERN CWA AT
THIS TIME AS VORT LOBE AND MESO LOW OVER SD ADVANCE NORTHEAST.
RUC/MESOETA MOVE THE VORT LOBE ACROSS THE CWA BY EARLY AFTERNOON
WITH A FRONTAL BOUNDARY REMAINING JUST TO OUR NORTHWEST. SOME UPPER
LEVEL RIDGING BUILDS IN BEHIND THE SHORTWAVE BEFORE THE NEXT PIECE
OF ENERGY APPROACHES SW MN BY LATE AFTERNOON. SURFACE BASED CAPE
RECOVERS TO AROUND 4500 J/KG BY LATE AFTERNOON TO OUR SOUTHWEST
ALONG WITH APPROACHING 100 KNOT WIND MAX AT 300 MB. BEST LOW LEVEL
CONVERGENCE SEEN THIS AFTERNOON OVER FAR WESTERN MN AND POINTS ON
WESTWARD DUE TO STRENGTHENING SURFACE LOW OVER WESTERN NEBRASKA.
WILL HAVE STORMS THIS MORNING WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS
AFTERNOON DUE TO THE APPROACHING SHORTWAVE AND SURFACE BOUNDARIES
FROM THIS MORNINGS ACTIVITY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE THEN LIKELY TONIGHT
WITH SEVERE STORMS EARLY ON IN THE WESTERN CWA AND LATER TONIGHT IN
THE EAST. SOME DRYING INDICATED ON SUNDAY ABOVE 900 MB. APPROACHING
FRONT AND SHORTWAVE STILL WARRANTS CHANCE POPS AT THIS TIME ALTHOUGH
THE MORNING MAY BE THE BEST CHANCE IN THE WESTERN CWA.

.MSP...NONE.

HILTBRAND

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.