Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2008, 3:56 PM CDT for Carver County, Scott County, Sibley County, Minnesota. It was in force for 34 min. 2 reports 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
- Jun 5, 2008, 3:56 PM CDT (20:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2008, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Carver County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sibley County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:57 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 4:10 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Chaska, MN | |
| Jun 5, 4:12 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | Chaska, MN |
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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 17 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
- 588 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 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 052056
SVRMPX
MNC019-139-143-052130-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0091.080605T2056Z-080605T2130Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
356 PM CDT THU JUN 5 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CARVER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
WESTERN SCOTT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
NORTHEASTERN SIBLEY COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 430 PM CDT
* AT 353 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES EAST OF GREEN ISLE...OR ABOUT 24
MILES NORTH OF ST PETER...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS INCLUDE...
NORWOOD/YOUNG AMERICA...
JORDAN...
COLOGNE...
WACONIA...
CARVER...
CHASKA...
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 4491 9379 4482 9355 4477 9349 4455 9366
4455 9390 4466 9409
TIME...MOT...LOC 2056Z 222DEG 43KT 4470 9387
$$
LSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 11:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 36 more | 17 hr |
| Jun 5, 1:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Redwood | 48 min |
| Jun 5, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Nicollet | 45 min |
| Jun 5, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sibley | 24 min |
| Jun 5, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, McLeod, Sibley | 32 min |
| Jun 5, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sibley | 30 min |
| Jun 5, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Hennepin | 28 min |
| Jun 5, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin, Ramsey, Washington | 29 min |
| Jun 5, 4:07 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MPX | Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott | 83 min |
| Jun 5, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Rice, Scott | 32 min |
| Jun 5, 4:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Hennepin, Scott | 23 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.