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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Twin Cities, MN

April 30, 2007Goodhue County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 2007, 2:24 PM CDT for Goodhue 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, 2:24 PM CDT (19:24 UTC)
Expired
Apr 30, 2007, 2:48 PM CDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Goodhue County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:28 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 88 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 301925
SVRMPX
MNC049-302000-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0022.070430T1924Z-070430T2000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
224 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...

* UNTIL 300 PM CDT

* AT 219 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF ZUMBROTA...OR ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RED WING...
  AND MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  GOODHUE...
  ZUMBROTA...

NICKLE SIZE WAS REPORTED IN HADER AT 224 PM.

LAT...LON 4446 9294 4422 9293 4424 9256 4433 9255
      4446 9245

$$
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS53 KMPX 301948
SVSMPX

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

MNC049-301957-
/O.CAN.KMPX.SV.W.0022.000000T0000Z-070430T2000Z/
GOODHUE MN-
247 PM CDT MON APR 30 2007

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR GOODHUE COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM HAD WEAKENED TO BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. 
THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. WEAKENING THUNDERSTORMS NEAR
ZUMBROTA COULD STILL PRODUCE SMALL HAIL.   

LAT...LON 4446 9294 4422 9293 4424 9256 4433 9255
      4446 9245

$$

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, 1:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXGoodhue, Rice24 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.