Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 2007, 4:01 PM CDT for 4 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 44 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
- Mar 25, 2007, 4:01 PM CDT (21:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2007, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Dakota County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Rice County, MN, Steele County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 2:54 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 645 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 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 252102
SVRMPX
MNC037-049-131-147-252145-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0005.070325T2101Z-070325T2145Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
401 PM CDT SUN MAR 25 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
DAKOTA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
GOODHUE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA...
RICE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
STEELE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 445 PM CDT
* AT 355 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL.DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FARIBAULT...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTH OF
NORTHFIELD...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
NORTHFIELD...
CANNON FALLS...
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.
LAT...LON 4402 9340 4400 9306 4419 9305 4421 9258
4470 9274 4467 9324
$$
MB/RJN1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS53 KMPX 252111
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
406 PM CDT SUN MAR 25 2007
MNC037-049-131-147-252145-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0005.000000T0000Z-070325T2145Z/
DAKOTA MN-GOODHUE MN-RICE MN-STEELE MN-
406 PM CDT SUN MAR 25 2007
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 445 PM CDT
FOR STEELE...RICE...GOODHUE AND DAKOTA COUNTIES...
AT 405 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL.DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR DUNDAS...OR ABOUT OVER
NORTHFIELD...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE
STANTON...RUSKIN...VERMILLION...NERSTRAND...KENYON...HAMPTON...
AND CANNON FALLS.
LAT...LON 4402 9340 4400 9306 4419 9305 4421 9258
4470 9274 4467 9324
$$
RJN/MDBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 4:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dakota, Washington | 50 min |
| Mar 25, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 47 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.