Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2007, 6:49 PM CDT for Faribault County, Minnesota. It was in force for 41 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
- May 23, 2007, 6:49 PM CDT (23:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2007, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Faribault County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 6:59 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 2 S Blue Earth, MN | REPORTED BY COUNTY DISPATCH. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 811 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 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 232349 SVRMPX MNC043-240030- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0044.070523T2349Z-070524T0030Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 649 PM CDT WED MAY 23 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... FARIBAULT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 641 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 13 MILES SOUTH OF BLUE EARTH...AND MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BLUE EARTH... WELLS... MINNESOTA LAKE... FROST... BRUSH CREEK... 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 4352 9418 4350 9368 4384 9366 4384 9399 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 2:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 39 min |
| May 23, 2:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin | 35 min |
| May 23, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Ramsey, Washington | 51 min |
| May 23, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault | 62 min |
| May 23, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Waseca | 46 min |
| May 23, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota | 42 min |
| May 23, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago | 53 min |
| May 23, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Ramsey, Washington | 61 min |
| May 23, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice | 46 min |
| May 23, 4:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 53 min |
| May 23, 4:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dakota | 20 min |
| May 23, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 44 min |
| May 23, 6:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn | 3 hr |
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.