Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2008, 4:07 PM CDT for Brown County, Nicollet County, Minnesota. It was in force for 53 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 30, 2008, 4:07 PM CDT (21:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2008, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Brown County, MN, Nicollet County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 5:05 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 2 Ssw St George, MN | LEAVES STRIPPED. HAIL PILES STILL AROUND THREE HOURS LATER. HAIL WAS MOSTLY PEA SIZE. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -413 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 505 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 302107 SVRMPX MNC015-103-302200- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0056.080530T2107Z-080530T2200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 407 PM CDT FRI MAY 30 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN BROWN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... NICOLLET COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * AT 403 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF NEW ULM... OR ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF MORGAN...AND MOVING EAST AT 28 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... NEW ULM... LAFAYETTE... NICOLLET... 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. LAT...LON 4445 9403 4424 9421 4435 9486 4445 9486 TIME...MOT...LOC 2107Z 272DEG 24KT 4443 9480 $$ MDB
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 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, 4:23 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.