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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 5, 2008Le Sueur County, Rice County, Scott County, Minnesota

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2008-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2008-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 70 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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

$$

LS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 11:36 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchMPXAnoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 36 more17 hr
Jun 5, 1:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBrown, Redwood48 min
Jun 5, 3:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBrown, Nicollet45 min
Jun 5, 3:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXSibley24 min
Jun 5, 3:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXCarver, McLeod, Sibley32 min
Jun 5, 3:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXSibley30 min
Jun 5, 3:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXCarver, Hennepin28 min
Jun 5, 3:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXCarver, Scott, Sibley34 min
Jun 5, 4:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXAnoka, Hennepin, Ramsey, Washington29 min
Jun 5, 4:07 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMPXAnoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott83 min
Jun 5, 4:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXCarver, Hennepin, Scott23 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.