Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2008, 9:41 PM CDT for Kandiyohi County, Redwood County, Renville County, Minnesota. It was in force for 16 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, 9:41 PM CDT (02:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2008, 9:57 PM CDT
- In force
- 16 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Kandiyohi County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 111 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 300241 SVRMPX MNC067-127-129-300330- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0042.080530T0241Z-080530T0330Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 941 PM CDT THU MAY 29 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN KANDIYOHI COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA... CENTRAL RENVILLE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA... EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL REDWOOD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 1030 PM CDT * AT 936 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RENVILLE...OR ABOUT 9 MILES EAST OF WOOD LAKE... AND MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RENVILLE... OLIVIA... BIRD ISLAND... HECTOR... 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 4501 9481 4468 9465 4462 9535 4480 9539 TIME...MOT...LOC 0241Z 249DEG 43KT 4471 9527 $$ KAT
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 300257 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 957 PM CDT THU MAY 29 2008 MNC067-127-129-300307- /O.CAN.KMPX.SV.W.0042.000000T0000Z-080530T0330Z/ KANDIYOHI MN-RENVILLE MN-REDWOOD MN- 957 PM CDT THU MAY 29 2008 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL REDWOOD...NORTHERN RENVILLE AND SOUTHEASTERN KANDIYOHI COUNTIES IS CANCELLED... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE SEVERE STORM HAD WEAKENED. THEREFORE...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. LAT...LON 4501 9481 4468 9465 4462 9535 4480 9539 TIME...MOT...LOC 0257Z 249DEG 43KT 4478 9502 $$ KAT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Martin, Watonwan | 49 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
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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.