Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 222, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2007, 2:12 PM CDT for Chisago County, Minnesota. It was in force for 63 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2007, 2:12 PM CDT (19:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2007, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Chisago County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:13 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 2:25 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Wyoming, MN | 8 INCH DIAMETER TREE DOWN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 1:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 432 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -564 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2355 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 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 081912 SVRMPX MNC025-082015- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0222.070708T1912Z-070708T2015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 212 PM CDT SUN JUL 8 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CHISAGO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 315 PM CDT * AT 209 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH BRANCH...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CAMBRIDGE...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... NORTH BRANCH... WYOMING... CHISAGO CITY... LINDSTROM... 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. STAY INDOORS...AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4556 9303 4531 9301 4530 9270 4552 9273 $$ JPR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 12:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wright | 63 min |
| Jul 8, 1:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sherburne | 51 min |
| Jul 8, 1:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Isanti | 58 min |
| Jul 8, 2:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sherburne | 27 min |
| Jul 8, 2:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Washington | 46 min |
| Jul 8, 2:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 57 min |
| Jul 8, 3:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, McLeod | 59 min |
| Jul 8, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sherburne | 26 min |
| Jul 8, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka | 61 min |
| Jul 8, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Ramsey, Washington | 58 min |
| Jul 8, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Nicollet | 29 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.