Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2007, 3:49 PM CDT for Dakota County, Minnesota. It was in force for 26 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, 3:49 PM CDT (20:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2007, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Dakota County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 45 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 022049 SVRMPX MNC037-022115- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0052.070602T2049Z-070602T2115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 349 PM CDT SAT JUN 2 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DAKOTA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 415 PM CDT * AT 348 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES EAST OF FARMINGTON...OR ABOUT 21 MILES SOUTH OF ST PAUL...AND MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... FARMINGTON... ROSEMOUNT... APPLE VALLEY... 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 4455 9319 4455 9298 4475 9295 4480 9325 $$ 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, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker | 47 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, 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
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.