Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2008, 9:11 PM CDT for 4 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 49 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
- May 29, 2008, 9:11 PM CDT (02:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2008, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Blue Earth County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Martin County, MN, Watonwan County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:11 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, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 606 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 251 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 361 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 300211 SVRMPX MNC013-043-091-165-300300- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0041.080530T0211Z-080530T0300Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 911 PM CDT THU MAY 29 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN BLUE EARTH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... SOUTHEASTERN WATONWAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... NORTHWESTERN FARIBAULT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... NORTHEASTERN MARTIN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT * AT 907 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES WEST OF TRUMAN TO 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TRUMAN...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 47 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... TRUMAN... MADELIA... MAPLETON... GOOD THUNDER... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR LARGE HAIL. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPORT ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGER...OR THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY...FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 4413 9432 4390 9377 4372 9439 4383 9469 TIME...MOT...LOC 0211Z 245DEG 41KT 4387 9461 4375 9428 $$ KAT
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 300255 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 954 PM CDT THU MAY 29 2008 MNC013-043-091-165-300304- /O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0041.000000T0000Z-080530T0300Z/ BLUE EARTH MN-WATONWAN MN-FARIBAULT MN-MARTIN MN- 954 PM CDT THU MAY 29 2008 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN MARTIN... NORTHWESTERN FARIBAULT...SOUTHEASTERN WATONWAN AND SOUTHERN BLUE EARTH COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 1000 PM CDT... THE LINE OF STORMS THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE WEAKENED AND MOVED OUT OF THE AREA. HEAVY RAIN...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SOME PEA SIZED HAIL WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE ACROSS PORTIONS OF BLUE EARTH COUNTY THROUGH 1100 PM. LAT...LON 4413 9432 4390 9377 4372 9439 4383 9469 TIME...MOT...LOC 0254Z 245DEG 41KT 4408 9399 4395 9366 $$ KAT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Redwood, Renville | 16 min |
| May 30, 1:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Redwood | 50 min |
| May 30, 1:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown | 49 min |
| May 30, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Watonwan | 40 min |
| May 30, 2:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown | 31 min |
| May 30, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Watonwan | 47 min |
| May 30, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope, Stevens | 54 min |
| May 30, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stevens | 46 min |
| May 30, 3:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Pope | 36 min |
| May 30, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Rice | 63 min |
| May 30, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Swift | 58 min |
| May 30, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Martin, Watonwan | 54 min |
| May 30, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Steele | 28 min |
| May 30, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope | 39 min |
| May 30, 3:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Pope | 27 min |
| May 30, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice | 27 min |
| May 30, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Nicollet | 53 min |
| May 30, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Pope, Stearns, Swift | 52 min |
| May 30, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn | 51 min |
| May 30, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, McLeod | 57 min |
| May 30, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker | 61 min |
| May 30, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Nicollet | 62 min |
| May 30, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, McLeod, Scott, Sibley | 43 min |
| May 30, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, McLeod, Meeker, Wright | 50 min |
| May 30, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Scott, Sibley | 45 min |
| May 30, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, McLeod | 37 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.