Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2008, 4:22 PM CDT for Carver County, Hennepin County, Scott County, Minnesota. It was in force for 23 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, 4:22 PM CDT (21:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2008, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Carver County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Scott County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 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 052122
SVRMPX
MNC019-053-139-052145-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0094.080605T2122Z-080605T2145Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
422 PM CDT THU JUN 5 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
HENNEPIN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
EAST CENTRAL CARVER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL SCOTT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 445 PM CDT
* AT 419 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 NEAR THE LAKE MINNETONKA AREA...OR ABOUT 10
MILES WEST OF MINNEAPOLIS...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS INCLUDE...
RICHFIELD...
ST LOUIS PARK...
PLYMOUTH...
CORCORAN...
GOLDEN VALLEY...
MINNEAPOLIS...
MAPLE GROVE...
ROGERS...
DAYTON...
NICKEL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN CHASKA AT 415 PM CDT WITH THIS STORM.
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 4520 9362 4520 9345 4499 9323 4488 9319
4479 9332 4481 9346 4478 9350 4491 9377
TIME...MOT...LOC 2122Z 226DEG 35KT 4496 9344
$$
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, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Rice, Scott | 32 min |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.