Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2002, 11:50 AM CDT for Redwood County, Minnesota. It was in force for 55 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 2002, 11:50 AM CDT (16:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2002, 12:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Redwood County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 565 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 401 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 393 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 081650 SVRMSP MNC127-081745- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1149 AM CDT WED MAY 8 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... REDWOOD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1245 PM CDT * AT 1149 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF REVERE...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TRACY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... LAMBERTON. REDWOOD FALLS. WABASSO. WALNUT GROVE. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 4415 9559 4406 9537 4451 9493 4463 9525
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 12:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Brown, Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Redwood, Renville, Yellow Medicine | 3 hr |
| May 8, 12:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Brown, Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Redwood, Renville, Yellow Medicine | 3 hr |
| May 8, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Nicollet | 45 min |
| May 8, 2:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Waseca | 42 min |
| May 8, 2:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Scott | 36 min |
| May 8, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur | 31 min |
| May 8, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Rice | 41 min |
| May 8, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue, Rice | 48 min |
| May 8, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 47 min |
| May 8, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 29 min |
| May 8, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 36 min |
| May 8, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver | 30 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.