Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2002, 4:28 PM CDT for Pierce County, Wisconsin; Goodhue County, Minnesota. It was in force for 47 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, 4:28 PM CDT (21:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2002, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Goodhue County, MN, Pierce County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:28 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 81 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 082128 SVRMSP MNC049-WIC093-082215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 428 PM CDT WED MAY 8 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GOODHUE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA PIERCE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 515 PM CDT * AT 428 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 3 MILES EAST OF CANNON FALLS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... CANNON FALLS. RED WING. BAY CITY. ELLSWORTH. MAIDEN ROCK. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH LARGE HAIL...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4451 9294 4435 9278 4459 9221 4479 9246
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pepin | 23 min |
| 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, 3:04 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, 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 Wisconsin, 2002Severe 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.