Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2008, 9:32 AM CDT for Lac qui Parle County, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. It was in force for 58 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 6, 2008, 9:32 AM CDT (14:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2008, 10:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Lac qui Parle County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -356 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2311 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 061432 SVRMPX MNC073-173-061530- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0007.080506T1432Z-080506T1530Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 932 AM CDT TUE MAY 6 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... NORTH CENTRAL YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 1030 AM CDT * AT 926 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DAWSON... OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTH OF CANBY...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... DAWSON... BOYD... 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 4501 9586 4481 9574 4475 9626 4490 9634 TIME...MOT...LOC 1432Z 256DEG 13KT 4484 9618 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 061512 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1012 AM CDT TUE MAY 6 2008 MNC073-173-061530- /O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0007.000000T0000Z-080506T1530Z/ LAC QUI PARLE MN-YELLOW MEDICINE MN- 1012 AM CDT TUE MAY 6 2008 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1030 AM CDT FOR NORTH CENTRAL YELLOW MEDICINE AND SOUTHERN LAC QUI PARLE COUNTIES... AT 1006 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 12 MILES WEST OF PROVIDENCE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF GARY...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE PROVIDENCE...DAWSON AND BOYD. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4501 9586 4481 9574 4475 9626 4490 9634 TIME...MOT...LOC 1512Z 256DEG 13KT 4484 9628 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 11:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Redwood | 37 min |
| May 6, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood | 40 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.