Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2008, 4:13 PM CDT for Le Sueur County, Rice County, Scott County, Minnesota. It was in force for 32 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
- Jun 5, 2008, 4:13 PM CDT (21:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2008, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Le Sueur County, MN, Rice County, MN, Scott County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 24 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 25 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 052114
SVRMPX
MNC079-131-139-052145-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0093.080605T2113Z-080605T2145Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
413 PM CDT THU JUN 5 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN SCOTT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
NORTHEASTERN LE SUEUR COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
NORTHWESTERN RICE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 445 PM CDT
* AT 410 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR NEW PRAGUE...OR ABOUT 22 MILES
NORTHEAST OF ST PETER...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS INCLUDE...
NEW MARKET...
CREDIT RIVER...
PRIOR LAKE...
SHAKOPEE...
SAVAGE...
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 4480 9346 4478 9333 4455 9333 4440 9357
4455 9367
TIME...MOT...LOC 2113Z 217DEG 36KT 4455 9359
$$
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, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Scott, Sibley | 34 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, 4:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Hennepin, Scott | 23 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.