Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 291, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 11, 2007, 7:02 PM CDT for Ramsey County, Washington County, Minnesota. It was in force for 58 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
- Aug 11, 2007, 7:02 PM CDT (00:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 2007, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Ramsey County, MN, Washington County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 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 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 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 49 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
- 3342 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1149 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 5.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS53 KMPX 120002
SVRMPX
MNC123-163-120100-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0291.070812T0002Z-070812T0100Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
702 PM CDT SAT AUG 11 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
RAMSEY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 800 PM CDT
* AT 701 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 NEAR WHITE BEAR LAKE...OR
ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF ST PAUL...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
NORTH ST PAUL...
OAKDALE...
WOODBURY...
STILLWATER...
STAY INDOORS...AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
LAT...LON 4512 9316 4493 9317 4495 9307 4486 9294
4483 9277 4510 9281
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, McLeod | 64 min |
| Aug 11, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Washington | 65 min |
| Aug 11, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Scott | 63 min |
| Aug 11, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota | 59 min |
| Aug 11, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Rice | 59 min |
| Aug 11, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago, Isanti | 64 min |
| Aug 11, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 58 min |
| Aug 11, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Nicollet | 62 min |
| Aug 11, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota | 32 min |
| Aug 11, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Rice | 47 min |
| Aug 11, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Steele, Waseca | 54 min |
| Aug 11, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Steele, Waseca | 63 min |
| Aug 11, 11:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 27 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.