Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 256, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 2008, 7:59 AM CDT for Faribault County, Martin County, Minnesota. It was in force for 61 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
- Jul 31, 2008, 7:59 AM CDT (12:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 2008, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Faribault County, MN, Martin County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:03 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 4:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 323 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
- 635 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -497 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1467 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 311259 SVRMPX MNC043-091-311400- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0256.080731T1259Z-080731T1400Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 759 AM CDT THU JUL 31 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... FARIBAULT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... MARTIN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 900 AM CDT * AT 758 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TRUMAN...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF FAIRMONT...AND MOVING EAST AT 39 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS INCLUDE... TRUMAN... FAIRMONT... GRANADA... EAST CHAIN... WINNEBAGO... BLUE EARTH... DELAVAN... EASTON... FROST... BRICELYN... WELLS... KIESTER... 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 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM CDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHERN MINNESOTA. LAT...LON 4382 9368 4352 9368 4353 9484 4385 9480 TIME...MOT...LOC 1259Z 283DEG 34KT 4376 9452 $$ BAP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 5:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift | 48 min |
| Jul 31, 5:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine | 55 min |
| Jul 31, 5:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Meeker, Renville | 43 min |
| Jul 31, 5:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Renville, Swift, Yellow Medicine | 66 min |
| Jul 31, 6:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine | 51 min |
| Jul 31, 6:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Meeker, Redwood, Renville, Swift | 58 min |
| Jul 31, 6:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Nicollet, Renville, Sibley | 60 min |
| Jul 31, 6:48 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Swift | 42 min |
| Jul 31, 6:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Swift | 50 min |
| Jul 31, 6:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Le Sueur, Nicollet, Redwood, Renville, Sibley | 64 min |
| Jul 31, 7:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Meeker, Wright | 54 min |
| Jul 31, 7:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Redwood, Renville | 46 min |
| Jul 31, 7:20 AM CDT | High Wind Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine | 100 min |
| Jul 31, 7:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Watonwan | 63 min |
| Jul 31, 7:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Le Sueur, McLeod, Nicollet, Renville, Scott and 1 more | 58 min |
| Jul 31, 7:36 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, McLeod, Meeker | 39 min |
| Jul 31, 7:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Nicollet, Waseca | 66 min |
| Jul 31, 8:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Hennepin, Le Sueur, Rice, Scott, Steele and 1 more | 50 min |
| Jul 31, 8:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 54 min |
| Jul 31, 8:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue | 56 min |
| Jul 31, 8:47 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Goodhue, Rice, Steele | 18 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.