Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 206, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2007, 3:40 PM CDT for Stearns County, Minnesota. It was in force for 45 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
- Jul 3, 2007, 3:40 PM CDT (20:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2007, 4:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Stearns County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 1198 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 975 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 032040 SVRMPX MNC145-032145- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0206.070703T2040Z-070703T2145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 340 PM CDT TUE JUL 3 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... STEARNS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 445 PM CDT * AT 339 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WINDS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES WEST OF ALBANY...OR ABOUT 24 MILES SOUTH OF LONG PRAIRIE...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ALBANY... COLD SPRING... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED. LAT...LON 4573 9470 4565 9489 4535 9451 4551 9419 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 032125 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 425 PM CDT TUE JUL 3 2007 MNC145-032135- /O.CAN.KMPX.SV.W.0206.000000T0000Z-070703T2145Z/ STEARNS MN- 425 PM CDT TUE JUL 3 2007 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR STEARNS COUNTY IS CANCELLED... RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM HAD WEAKENED TO BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. LAT...LON 4573 9470 4565 9489 4535 9451 4551 9419 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 11:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker, Stearns | 49 min |
| Jul 3, 12:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sherburne, Stearns, Wright | 44 min |
| Jul 3, 1:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Todd | 51 min |
| Jul 3, 2:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Rice | 27 min |
| Jul 3, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago | 45 min |
| Jul 3, 2:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Todd | 39 min |
| Jul 3, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 39 min |
| Jul 3, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Rice, Scott | 42 min |
| Jul 3, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wright | 62 min |
| Jul 3, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue, Rice | 64 min |
| Jul 3, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Steele, Waseca | 54 min |
| Jul 3, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth | 44 min |
| Jul 3, 6:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn | 32 min |
| Jul 3, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Steele, Waseca | 63 min |
| Jul 3, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 53 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2007Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007
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.