Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2014
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2014, 7:52 PM CDT for Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota. It was in force for 23 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
- May 27, 2014, 7:52 PM CDT (00:52 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2014, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Lac qui Parle County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 169 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:54 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 8:00 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 6 Nne Madison, MN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -253 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1861 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
163 WUUS53 KMPX 280052 SVRMPX MNC073-280115- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0027.140528T0052Z-140528T0115Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 752 PM CDT TUE MAY 27 2014 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 750 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF MADISON...AND MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH. HAZARD...HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL. SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. IMPACT...DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MADISON AROUND 810 PM CDT. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE MADISON AIRPORT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING. && LAT...LON 4497 9605 4499 9625 4514 9618 4513 9606 TIME...MOT...LOC 0052Z 006DEG 16KT 4508 9614 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 7:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Lac qui Parle | 45 min |
| May 27, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle | 31 min |
| May 27, 8:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 37 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.