Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2008, 10:18 PM CDT for Steele County, Waseca County, Minnesota. It was in force for 42 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 11, 2008, 10:18 PM CDT (03:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2008, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Steele County, MN, Waseca County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 8:39 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -333 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 523 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 574 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 740 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 120318 SVRMPX MNC147-161-120400- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0111.080612T0318Z-080612T0400Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1018 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL WASECA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... STEELE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 1100 PM CDT * AT 1017 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 3 MILES EAST OF NEW RICHLAND...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTH OF WASECA...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 44 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS INCLUDE... ELLENDALE... STEELE CENTER... OWATONNA... CLINTON FALLS... MEDFORD... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 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 200 AM CDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. LAT...LON 4418 9335 4418 9305 4386 9308 4389 9361 TIME...MOT...LOC 0318Z 217DEG 38KT 4391 9342 $$ JPR
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 120358 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1055 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2008 MNC147-161-120405- /O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0111.000000T0000Z-080612T0400Z/ WASECA MN-STEELE MN- 1055 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2008 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR STEELE AND EAST CENTRAL WASECA COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 1100 PM CDT... SEVERE STORMS HAVE WEAKENED OR MOVED OUT OF THE AREA...BUT MORE THUNDERSTORMS COULD MOVE THROUGH THE AREA. ADDITIONAL WARNINGS ARE NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. LAT...LON 4418 9335 4418 9305 4386 9308 4389 9361 TIME...MOT...LOC 0355Z 217DEG 38KT 4422 9309 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Brown, Watonwan | 37 min |
| Jun 11, 7:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Redwood | 14 min |
| Jun 11, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope | 47 min |
| Jun 11, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Brown, Nicollet | 30 min |
| Jun 11, 7:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Watonwan | 37 min |
| Jun 11, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Martin | 40 min |
| Jun 11, 8:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Nicollet | 23 min |
| Jun 11, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault | 49 min |
| Jun 11, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Le Sueur, Scott, Sibley | 64 min |
| Jun 11, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Sibley | 27 min |
| Jun 11, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Waseca | 38 min |
| Jun 11, 9:15 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MPX | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Dakota and 21 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 11, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Steele, Waseca | 56 min |
| Jun 11, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Hennepin | 44 min |
| Jun 11, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Hennepin, Scott | 37 min |
| Jun 11, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn | 52 min |
| Jun 11, 11:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 4 hr |
| Jun 12, 2:02 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 13 hr |
| Jun 12, 2:18 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MPX | Goodhue, Olmsted | 31 hr |
| Jun 12, 2:18 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 31 hr |
| Jun 12, 2:52 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 8 hr |
| Jun 12, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle, Swift | 39 min |
| Jun 12, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 28 min |
| Jun 12, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope | 41 min |
| Jun 12, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Swift | 30 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008
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.