Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2013
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 31, 2013, 5:12 PM CDT for Chippewa County, Renville County, Swift County, Minnesota. It was in force for 48 min. 1 report 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
- Aug 31, 2013, 5:12 PM CDT (22:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2013, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Chippewa County, MN, Renville County, MN, Swift County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 5:15 PM CDT | HAIL 2 | 3 N Montevideo, MN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -389 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 782 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
386
WUUS53 KMPX 312212
SVRMPX
MNC023-129-151-312300-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0151.130831T2212Z-130831T2300Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
512 PM CDT SAT AUG 31 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CHIPPEWA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
NORTHWESTERN RENVILLE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
SOUTHEASTERN SWIFT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 600 PM CDT
* AT 510 PM CDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES SOUTH OF BENSON TO 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF
MONTEVIDEO TO MONTEVIDEO...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
HAZARD...QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND 70 MPH WIND GUSTS.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT CONSIDERABLE
TREE DAMAGE. WIND DAMAGE IS ALSO LIKELY TO MOBILE HOMES...
ROOFS AND OUTBUILDINGS.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ASBURY...GLUEK...MURDOCK...MAYNARD...CLARA CITY...KERKHOVEN...
MINNESOTA FALLS AND SACRED HEART.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 4507 9577 4531 9576 4520 9524 4489 9525
4472 9539 4478 9551 4479 9550 4485 9561
4490 9567 4490 9570 4494 9575 4495 9581
4497 9582
TIME...MOT...LOC 2212Z 289DEG 27KT 4518 9561 4504 9562
4490 9569
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...70MPH
$$1 follow-up statement
317
WWUS53 KMPX 312243
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
543 PM CDT SAT AUG 31 2013
MNC023-129-151-312300-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0151.000000T0000Z-130831T2300Z/
CHIPPEWA MN-RENVILLE MN-SWIFT MN-
543 PM CDT SAT AUG 31 2013
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWESTERN
RENVILLE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA...AND SOUTHEASTERN SWIFT AND
CHIPPEWA COUNTIES IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA UNTIL 600 PM CDT...
AT 541 PM CDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES SOUTH OF MONSON LAKE MEMORIAL STATE PARK TO
14 MILES NORTHEAST OF GRANITE FALLS TO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRANITE
FALLS...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
HAZARD...QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND 70 MPH WIND GUSTS.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT CONSIDERABLE
TREE DAMAGE. WIND DAMAGE IS ALSO LIKELY TO MOBILE HOMES...
ROOFS AND OUTBUILDINGS.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CLARA CITY...MAYNARD...MINNESOTA FALLS AND SACRED HEART.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 4508 9567 4526 9552 4520 9524 4489 9525
4472 9539 4478 9551 4479 9550 4490 9567
4490 9570 4494 9575 4495 9581 4497 9582
TIME...MOT...LOC 2243Z 289DEG 27KT 4517 9531 4498 9536
4487 9558
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...70MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stevens | 38 min |
| Aug 31, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope | 43 min |
| Aug 31, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle | 41 min |
| Aug 31, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope, Stevens, Swift | 47 min |
| Aug 31, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Swift | 43 min |
| Aug 31, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 35 min |
| Aug 31, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope, Stearns, Todd | 55 min |
| Aug 31, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Pope, Stearns, Swift | 45 min |
| Aug 31, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine | 19 min |
| Aug 31, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Sherburne, Stearns | 28 min |
| Aug 31, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Redwood, Renville, Yellow Medicine | 37 min |
| Aug 31, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 47 min |
| Aug 31, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker, Renville | 39 min |
| Aug 31, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood, Renville, Yellow Medicine | 38 min |
| Aug 31, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Nicollet, Redwood, Renville | 52 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.