Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2007, 2:26 AM CDT for Le Sueur County, Rice County, Minnesota. It was in force for 49 min. 2 reports 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
- Jun 7, 2007, 2:26 AM CDT (07:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2007, 3:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Le Sueur County, MN, Rice County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 2:35 AM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 7 N Elysian, MN | |
| Jun 7, 2:47 AM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Lonsdale, MN |
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 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 914 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 342 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 780 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 070726 SVRMPX MNC079-131-070815- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0060.070607T0726Z-070607T0815Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 226 AM CDT THU JUN 7 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LE SUEUR COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... RICE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 315 AM CDT * AT 223 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM LE CENTER TO 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LE CENTER...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MONTGOMERY... LONSDALE... 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. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 AM CDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. LAT...LON 4439 9393 4421 9365 4446 9324 4454 9379 $$ LS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 1:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Redwood, Watonwan | 43 min |
| Jun 7, 2:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Nicollet, Sibley | 51 min |
| Jun 7, 2:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod | 24 min |
| Jun 7, 2:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Rice, Scott | 32 min |
| Jun 7, 2:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, McLeod, Wright | 35 min |
| Jun 7, 3:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Ramsey, Washington | 25 min |
| Jun 7, 3:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Washington | 34 min |
| Jun 7, 4:14 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | MPX | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Dakota and 27 more | 17 hr |
| Jun 7, 11:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 57 min |
| Jun 7, 11:45 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 45 min |
| Jun 7, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope | 24 min |
| Jun 7, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood, Renville | 50 min |
| Jun 7, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker, Wright | 46 min |
| Jun 7, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 33 min |
| Jun 7, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Isanti, Sherburne | 49 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.