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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Twin Cities, MN

April 30, 2007Goodhue County, Rice County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 2007, 1:13 PM CDT for Goodhue County, Rice County, Minnesota. It was in force for 24 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
Apr 30, 2007, 1:13 PM CDT (18:13 UTC)
Expired
Apr 30, 2007, 1:37 PM CDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Goodhue County, MN, Rice County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 64 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2007-04-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2007-04-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -57 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2666 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 301815
SVRMPX
MNC049-131-301915-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0021.070430T1813Z-070430T1915Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
113 PM CDT MON APR 30 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GOODHUE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA...
  RICE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...

* UNTIL 215 PM CDT

* AT 112 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...   
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.   THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 5 
  MILES SOUTH OF NORTHFIELD...OR ABOUT 8   MILES NORTHEAST OF        
  FARIBAULT...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. OTHER POSSIBLE SEVERE STORM
  WERE EXTENDING EAST TOWARD THE CITY OF GOODHUE.  
   

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  KENYON...
  ZUMBROTA...

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 4446 9348 4424 9351 4425 9259 4453 9253

$$
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS53 KMPX 301837
SVSMPX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
135 PM CDT MON APR 30 2007

MNC049-131-301845-
/O.CAN.KMPX.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-070430T1915Z/
GOODHUE MN-RICE MN-
135 PM CDT MON APR 30 2007

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR RICE AND GOODHUE COUNTIES IS
CANCELLED...

RADAR INDICATED THAT THE LINE OF STORMS HAD WEAKENED TO BELOW SEVERE 
LIMITS. THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DO 
CONTINUE ALONG A LINE FROM NEAR NORTHFIELD TO GOODHUE...WHICH COULD 
STILL PRODUCE SMALL HAIL.   

LAT...LON 4446 9349 4424 9351 4425 9259 4453 9253

$$

JPR

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 30, 12:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXLe Sueur, Nicollet54 min
Apr 30, 2:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXGoodhue24 min
Apr 30, 4:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBlue Earth, Waseca41 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.