Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2007, 2:58 PM CDT for Meeker County, Minnesota. It was in force for 47 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
- Jun 2, 2007, 2:58 PM CDT (19:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2007, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Meeker County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 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 nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 774 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 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 021958 SVRMPX MNC093-022045- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0050.070602T1958Z-070602T2045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 258 PM CDT SAT JUN 2 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN MEEKER COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 345 PM CDT * AT 253 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZED HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DASSEL...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LITCHFIELD...AND MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... DASSEL... DARWIN... 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 4499 9444 4499 9426 4528 9427 4527 9455 $$ KAT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 1:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | McLeod, Sibley | 43 min |
| Jun 2, 2:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Ramsey, Washington | 44 min |
| Jun 2, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sibley | 47 min |
| Jun 2, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka | 41 min |
| Jun 2, 3:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Sibley | 94 min |
| Jun 2, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns, Wright | 30 min |
| Jun 2, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota | 26 min |
| Jun 2, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Renville | 32 min |
| Jun 2, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Ramsey | 45 min |
| Jun 2, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sherburne, Wright | 54 min |
| Jun 2, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 39 min |
| Jun 2, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 23 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.