Alert archive / Minnesota / High Wind Warnings in 2008
High Wind Warning 2, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this high wind warning at Jul 29, 2008, 2:59 AM CDT for 5 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 29, 2008, 2:59 AM CDT (07:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 2008, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Douglas County, MN, Pope County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Todd County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:02 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 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 1538 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1238 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS73 KMPX 290759 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 259 AM CDT TUE JUL 29 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING FOR A PART OF WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA UNTIL 5 AM... .WIND GUSTS OF 50 MPH OR STRONGER CAN BE EXPECTED UNTIL AROUND 5 AM IN THE WAKE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PASSED ACROSS CENTRAL MINNESOTA. WIND GUSTS OF 50 MPH OR STRONGER HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN AREAS SUCH AS MORRIS...ALEXANDRIA...AS WELL AS WHEATON. MNZ041-042-047>049-291000- /O.NEW.KMPX.HW.W.0002.080729T0759Z-080729T1000Z/ DOUGLAS-TODD-STEVENS-POPE-STEARNS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALEXANDRIA...LONG PRAIRIE...MORRIS... GLENWOOD...ST. CLOUD 259 AM CDT TUE JUL 29 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM CDT EARLY THIS MORNING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM CDT EARLY THIS MORNING. WIND GUSTS OF 50 MPH OR STRONGER CAN BE EXPECTED UNTIL AROUND 5 AM IN THE WAKE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PASSED ACROSS CENTRAL MINNESOTA. WIND GUSTS OF 50 MPH OR STRONGER HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN AREAS SUCH AS MORRIS...ALEXANDRIA...AS WELL AS WHEATON. A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 12:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift | 63 min |
| Jul 29, 1:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Pope, Swift | 47 min |
| Jul 29, 2:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 52 min |
| Jul 29, 2:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 54 min |
| Jul 29, 2:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton | 43 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.