Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2014
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 2014, 5:39 PM CDT for Sibley County, Minnesota. It was in force for 21 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
- Mar 31, 2014, 5:39 PM CDT (22:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2014, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 21 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Sibley County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 1860 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 335 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
759 WUUS53 KMPX 312239 SVRMPX MNC143-312300- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0001.140331T2239Z-140331T2300Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 539 PM CDT MON MAR 31 2014 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL SIBLEY COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 536 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GAYLORD... AND MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH. HAZARD...QUARTER SIZE HAIL. SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. IMPACT...DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ARLINGTON AND NEW AUBURN. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING. && LAT...LON 4472 9425 4471 9404 4451 9410 4452 9425 TIME...MOT...LOC 2239Z 193DEG 37KT 4456 9417 HAIL...1.00IN WIND...<50MPH $$
1 follow-up statement
500 WWUS53 KMPX 312243 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 543 PM CDT MON MAR 31 2014 MNC143-312300- /O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0001.000000T0000Z-140331T2300Z/ SIBLEY MN- 543 PM CDT MON MAR 31 2014 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL SIBLEY COUNTY UNTIL 600 PM CDT... AT 540 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GAYLORD...AND MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. HAZARD...HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL. SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. IMPACT...DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ARLINGTON AND NEW AUBURN. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING. && LAT...LON 4472 9425 4471 9404 4451 9410 4452 9425 TIME...MOT...LOC 2243Z 193DEG 37KT 4460 9416 HAIL...1.25IN WIND...<50MPH $$ CLF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 4:06 AM CDT | Blizzard Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Douglas, Lac qui Parle, Pope, Stevens, Swift and 1 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 31, 4:06 AM CDT | Winter Weather Advisory | MPX | Chippewa, Douglas, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Meeker, Morrison and 6 more | 27 hr |
| Mar 31, 4:17 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Faribault, Freeborn, Le Sueur, McLeod and 10 more | 29 hr |
| Mar 31, 3:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 26 min |
| Mar 31, 4:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 17 min |
| Mar 31, 4:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle | 20 min |
| Mar 31, 4:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chippewa | 27 min |
| Mar 31, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle | 17 min |
| Mar 31, 5:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Kandiyohi | 23 min |
| Mar 31, 5:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Sibley | 24 min |
| Mar 31, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod | 20 min |
| Mar 31, 6:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Steele | 39 min |
| Mar 31, 6:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Meeker | 36 min |
Nearby
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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.