Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2009
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2009, 7:17 AM CDT for Brown County, Redwood County, Minnesota. It was in force for 43 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 17, 2009, 7:17 AM CDT (12:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2009, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Brown County, MN, Redwood County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 487 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 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 171217
SVRMPX
MNC015-127-171300-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0010.090617T1217Z-090617T1300Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
717 AM CDT WED JUN 17 2009
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN REDWOOD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...
WESTERN BROWN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 800 AM CDT
* AT 717 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LUCAN...OR ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
REDWOOD FALLS...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
REVERE...
WABASSO...
LAMBERTON...
SANBORN...
CLEMENTS...
SPRINGFIELD...
MORGAN...
EVAN...
COMFREY...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR
DAMAGING WINDS. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
REPORT ANY SIGNIFICANT WIND OR HAIL DAMAGE TO THE NEAREST LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY...FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
&&
LAT...LON 4411 9511 4419 9512 4419 9549 4421 9556
4444 9542 4443 9478 4411 9476 4410 9510
TIME...MOT...LOC 1217Z 279DEG 23KT 4432 9536
$$2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS53 KMPX 171235
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
735 AM CDT WED JUN 17 2009
MNC015-127-171300-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0010.000000T0000Z-090617T1300Z/
REDWOOD MN-BROWN MN-
735 AM CDT WED JUN 17 2009
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM CDT
FOR WESTERN BROWN AND SOUTHEASTERN REDWOOD COUNTIES...
AT 735 AM CDT...RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60
MPH. THE WORST PORTION OF THIS SEVERE STORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES EAST
OF WANDA...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTH OF SANBORN...AND MOVING EAST AT 30
MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...CLEMENTS...SPRINGFIELD...
COBDEN AND EVAN.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR
DAMAGING WINDS. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
REPORT ANY DAMAGE TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY...FOR RELAY
TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
&&
LAT...LON 4411 9511 4419 9512 4420 9539 4434 9530
4440 9509 4443 9478 4411 9476 4410 9510
TIME...MOT...LOC 1235Z 280DEG 26KT 4430 9513
$$000
WWUS53 KMPX 171251
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
751 AM CDT WED JUN 17 2009
MNC015-127-171300-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0010.000000T0000Z-090617T1300Z/
REDWOOD MN-BROWN MN-
751 AM CDT WED JUN 17 2009
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM CDT
FOR WESTERN BROWN AND SOUTHEASTERN REDWOOD COUNTIES...
AT 748 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
SHOW A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60
MPH. THE MOST INTENSE PORTION OF THE SEVERE STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
SPRINGFIELD...AND MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
THE STORM HAS EXHIBITED A RECENT WEAKENING TREND AND A WARNING MAY
NOT BE NEEDED DOWNSTREAM FOR EASTERN BROWN COUNTY.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...COBDEN AND EVAN.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR
DAMAGING WINDS. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
REPORT ANY DAMAGE TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY...FOR RELAY
TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
&&
LAT...LON 4411 9511 4419 9512 4420 9523 4436 9508
4441 9478 4411 9476 4410 9510
TIME...MOT...LOC 1250Z 283DEG 32KT 4426 9493
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 9:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 45 min |
| Jun 16, 10:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Lac qui Parle | 44 min |
| Jun 17, 7:03 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Redwood | 42 min |
| Jun 17, 7:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Watonwan | 62 min |
| Jun 17, 8:10 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Brown | 65 min |
| Jun 17, 9:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Faribault | 59 min |
| Jun 17, 9:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Faribault | 47 min |
| Jun 17, 10:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn | 58 min |
| Jun 17, 6:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn, Steele, Waseca | 38 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.