Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2002, 2:54 PM CDT for Scott County, Minnesota. It was in force for 36 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, 2:54 PM CDT (19:54 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2002, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Scott County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 25 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 081954 SVRMSP MNC139-082030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 254 PM CDT WED MAY 8 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SCOTT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 330 PM CDT * AT 254 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 10 MILES SOUTH OF JORDAN...OR ABOUT 3 MILES WEST OF NEW PRAGUE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... JORDAN. PRIOR LAKE. SHAKOPEE. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 4455 9382 4455 9351 4467 9333 4480 9346
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 11:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood | 55 min |
| 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, 2:59 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.