Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2017
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 167, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 2017, 3:57 PM CDT for Faribault County, Freeborn County, Minnesota. It was in force for 18 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
- Jul 19, 2017, 3:57 PM CDT (20:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2017, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Faribault County, MN, Freeborn County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:57 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 12:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 1964 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
249
WUUS53 KMPX 192057
SVRMPX
MNC043-047-192115-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0167.170719T2057Z-170719T2115Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
357 PM CDT WED JUL 19 2017
The National Weather Service in The Twin Cities has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Western Freeborn County in south central Minnesota...
Eastern Faribault County in south central Minnesota...
* Until 415 PM CDT
* At 357 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from near Waldorf to near Wells to near Elmore, moving
east at 50 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Severe thunderstorms will be near,
Wells around 400 PM CDT.
Freeborn around 405 PM CDT.
Alden, Hartland and Conger around 410 PM CDT.
Other locations impacted by these severe thunderstorms include
Walters, Kiester, Matawan, Baroda and Brush Creek.
This includes Interstate 90 between mile markers 128 and 151.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 4350 9394 4359 9388 4360 9396 4369 9393
4385 9394 4384 9341 4350 9356
TIME...MOT...LOC 2057Z 277DEG 44KT 4389 9366 4370 9373 4345 9408
HAIL...0.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$1 follow-up statement
609
WWUS53 KMPX 192112
SVSMPX
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
412 PM CDT WED JUL 19 2017
MNC043-047-192121-
/O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0167.000000T0000Z-170719T2115Z/
Freeborn MN-Faribault MN-
412 PM CDT WED JUL 19 2017
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WESTERN FREEBORN AND EASTERN
FARIBAULT COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 415 PM CDT...
The storms which prompted the warning have moved out of the warned
area. Therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire.
A severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect until 600 PM CDT for
south central Minnesota.
Remember, a Severe Thunderstorm Warning still remains in effect for
eastern Faribault county and all of Freeborn county.
LAT...LON 4350 9394 4359 9388 4360 9396 4369 9393
4385 9394 4384 9341 4350 9356
TIME...MOT...LOC 2111Z 277DEG 44KT 4387 9345 4368 9352 4343 9387
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 2:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood | 39 min |
| Jul 19, 2:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Watonwan | 52 min |
| Jul 19, 2:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Brown | 24 min |
| Jul 19, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Nicollet, Watonwan | 34 min |
| Jul 19, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Rice, Waseca | 37 min |
| Jul 19, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Martin | 40 min |
| Jul 19, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue | 43 min |
| Jul 19, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn, Steele, Waseca | 39 min |
| Jul 19, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 20 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.