Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 288, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 11, 2007, 6:39 PM CDT for Carver County, McLeod County, Minnesota. It was in force for 66 min. 4 reports 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
- Aug 11, 2007, 6:39 PM CDT (23:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 2007, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Carver County, MN, McLeod County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:40 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 6:55 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | Winsted, MN | |
| Aug 11, 7:07 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | Winsted, MN | |
| Aug 11, 7:28 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 2 W Watertown, MN | |
| Aug 11, 7:46 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Watertown, MN |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 35 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
- 1149 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -274 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 988 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 112338 SVRMPX MNC019-085-120045- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0288.070811T2339Z-070812T0045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 639 PM CDT SAT AUG 11 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MCLEOD COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA... CARVER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 636 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 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF WINSTED...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF HUTCHINSON...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... GLENCOE... WINSTED... LESTER PRAIRIE... NORWOOD/YOUNG AMERICA... WACONIA... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4498 9425 4473 9420 4471 9372 4497 9378 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 11:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle | 67 min |
| Aug 10, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 46 min |
| Aug 11, 12:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stevens | 59 min |
| Aug 11, 12:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Swift | 62 min |
| Aug 11, 12:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi | 56 min |
| Aug 11, 12:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope | 53 min |
| Aug 11, 1:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 53 min |
| Aug 11, 1:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Todd | 44 min |
| Aug 11, 1:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Swift | 56 min |
| Aug 11, 1:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 58 min |
| Aug 11, 1:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker | 66 min |
| Aug 11, 1:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Sherburne, Stearns, Wright | 63 min |
| Aug 11, 2:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Renville | 59 min |
| Aug 11, 2:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, McLeod | 57 min |
| Aug 11, 2:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 61 min |
| Aug 11, 2:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin, Ramsey | 3 hr |
| Aug 11, 2:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Anoka, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey | 3 hr |
| Aug 11, 3:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wright | 29 min |
| Aug 11, 3:07 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Wright | 113 min |
| Aug 11, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sibley | 44 min |
| Aug 11, 3:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Ramsey, Washington | 63 min |
| Aug 11, 3:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Scott | 65 min |
| Aug 11, 3:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 54 min |
| Aug 11, 4:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur | 39 min |
| Aug 11, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker, Wright | 56 min |
| Aug 11, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wright | 49 min |
| Aug 11, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 62 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.