Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2014
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 3, 2014, 4:00 PM CDT for Mille Lacs County, Minnesota. It was in force for 30 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
- Sep 3, 2014, 4:00 PM CDT (21:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2014, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Mille Lacs County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:00 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 4:10 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 3 Sse Onamia, MN | GROUND WHITE. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 1649 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
270
WUUS53 KMPX 032100
SVRMPX
MNC095-032130-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0113.140903T2100Z-140903T2130Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
400 PM CDT WED SEP 3 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN MILLE LACS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 430 PM CDT
* AT 358 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ONAMIA...AND
MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
HAZARD...QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN
MILLE LACS COUNTY...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...WAHKON.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO
FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS!
&&
LAT...LON 4598 9344 4597 9353 4597 9377 4604 9379
4617 9343
TIME...MOT...LOC 2100Z 255DEG 32KT 4603 9367
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...<50MPH
$$1 follow-up statement
234
WWUS53 KMPX 032110
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
410 PM CDT WED SEP 3 2014
MNC095-032130-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0113.000000T0000Z-140903T2130Z/
MILLE LACS MN-
410 PM CDT WED SEP 3 2014
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL
MILLE LACS COUNTY UNTIL 430 PM CDT...
AT 409 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ONAMIA...AND
MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
HAZARD...HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED.
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EAST
CENTRAL MILLE LACS COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO
FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS!
&&
LAT...LON 4600 9357 4601 9366 4606 9370 4617 9343
4598 9344
TIME...MOT...LOC 2110Z 255DEG 31KT 4605 9356
HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...<50MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 5:03 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chippewa | 42 min |
| Sep 3, 6:42 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chippewa | 2 hr |
| Sep 3, 6:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Swift | 2 hr |
| Sep 3, 8:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Kandiyohi | 2 hr |
| Sep 3, 8:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, McLeod, Meeker, Renville | 49 min |
| Sep 3, 9:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Renville, Sibley | 39 min |
| Sep 3, 9:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, McLeod, Sibley | 23 min |
| Sep 3, 10:04 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | McLeod | 26 min |
| Sep 3, 10:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, McLeod | 24 min |
| Sep 3, 10:54 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Wright | 51 min |
| Sep 3, 11:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wright | 30 min |
| Sep 3, 11:54 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Stevens | 36 min |
| Sep 3, 12:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Benton | 47 min |
| Sep 3, 12:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope, Stevens | 44 min |
| Sep 3, 12:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Todd | 35 min |
| Sep 3, 12:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Sherburne | 41 min |
| Sep 3, 12:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope, Stevens | 50 min |
| Sep 3, 1:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Pope | 3 hr |
| Sep 3, 1:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope, Stearns | 35 min |
| Sep 3, 2:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Todd | 41 min |
| Sep 3, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison, Todd | 44 min |
| Sep 3, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 31 min |
| Sep 3, 3:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Todd | 48 min |
| Sep 3, 3:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Kanabec | 50 min |
| Sep 3, 4:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Morrison | 47 min |
| Sep 3, 4:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Mille Lacs, Morrison | 53 min |
| Sep 3, 4:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Morrison | 41 min |
| Sep 3, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kanabec | 43 min |
| Sep 3, 5:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Todd | 3 hr |
| Sep 3, 5:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Morrison | 3 hr |
| Sep 3, 5:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Mille Lacs, Morrison | 3 hr |
| Sep 3, 6:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Mille Lacs | 51 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.