Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2002, 3:04 PM CDT for Dakota County, Rice County, Minnesota. It was in force for 41 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, 3:04 PM CDT (20:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2002, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Dakota County, MN, Rice County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:08 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 37 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 082004
SVRMSP
MNC037-131-082045-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
305 PM CDT WED MAY 8 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
DAKOTA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
RICE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 345 PM CDT
* AT 305 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE
HAIL 3 MILES NORTH OF LONSDALE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...
APPLE VALLEY.
COATES.
FARMINGTON.
LAKEVILLE.
LONSDALE.
ROSEMOUNT.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH LARGE HAIL...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.
LAT...LON 4452 9352 4441 9341 4474 9288 4480 9326
4455 9328The 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, 2:54 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, 3:42 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
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002
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.