Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2018
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2018, 3:43 PM CDT for McLeod County, Minnesota. It was in force for 32 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 29, 2018, 3:43 PM CDT (20:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2018, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County McLeod County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 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 29, 4:18 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Sw Glencoe, MN | REPORTED AT HWY 212 AND HILTON, GLENCOE, MN 8 INCH DIAMETER TREE BRANCH DOWN. 10 TO 12 FOOT DIAMETER TREE SNAPPED OFF AT 12 FEET UP. SMALL BRANCHES BURNING ON POWER LINES. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 1:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 46 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
- 138 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -309 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1748 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
779
WUUS53 KMPX 292043
SVRMPX
MNC085-292115-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0047.180529T2043Z-180529T2115Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
343 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2018
The National Weather Service in The Twin Cities has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Northeastern McLeod County in central Minnesota...
* Until 415 PM CDT
* At 343 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Sumter, or 12
miles southeast of Hutchinson, moving north at 50 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* This severe thunderstorm will be near,
Lester Prairie and Silver Lake around 355 PM CDT.
Winsted around 400 PM CDT.
Other locations impacted by this severe thunderstorm include Sumter,
Biscay and Glencoe Airport.
This includes U.S. Highway 212 between mile markers 110 and 125.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 4498 9433 4498 9401 4496 9400 4472 9407
4472 9434
TIME...MOT...LOC 2043Z 188DEG 41KT 4476 9421
HAIL...0.88IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
JLT1 follow-up statement
938
WWUS53 KMPX 292103
SVSMPX
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
403 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2018
MNC085-292115-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0047.000000T0000Z-180529T2115Z/
McLeod MN-
403 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2018
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 415 PM CDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN MCLEOD COUNTY...
At 403 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Winsted, or 14
miles east of Hutchinson, moving north at 45 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
this severe thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of
northeastern McLeod County, including the following locations:
Sumter, Biscay and Glencoe Airport.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 4498 9433 4498 9401 4496 9400 4472 9407
4472 9434
TIME...MOT...LOC 2103Z 193DEG 41KT 4496 9409
HAIL...0.88IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
JLTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 7:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Benton | 29 min |
| May 28, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Stearns | 24 min |
| May 28, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison, Stearns | 31 min |
| May 28, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Mille Lacs | 43 min |
| May 28, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 34 min |
| May 28, 9:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chippewa | 31 min |
| May 28, 10:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Lac qui Parle | 37 min |
| May 29, 3:03 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | MPX | Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott and 1 more | 14 hr |
| May 29, 12:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Redwood | 33 min |
| May 29, 1:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Redwood | 40 min |
| May 29, 1:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood, Renville, Yellow Medicine | 49 min |
| May 29, 1:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Goodhue | 63 min |
| May 29, 1:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chippewa | 3 hr |
| May 29, 1:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 40 min |
| May 29, 2:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Douglas, Pope, Todd | 85 min |
| May 29, 2:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Redwood | 86 min |
| May 29, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey | 34 min |
| May 29, 2:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Anoka, Chisago, Dakota, Ramsey, Washington | 70 min |
| May 29, 3:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | McLeod, Sibley | 84 min |
| May 29, 3:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Goodhue | 61 min |
| May 29, 3:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Benton, Kandiyohi, Meeker, Morrison, Stearns, Wright | 89 min |
| May 29, 3:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Le Sueur, Nicollet, Waseca, Watonwan | 96 min |
| May 29, 3:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chisago, Isanti, Sherburne | 76 min |
| May 29, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Isanti | 33 min |
| May 29, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs | 37 min |
| May 29, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kanabec, Mille Lacs | 51 min |
| May 29, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sherburne, Wright | 34 min |
| May 29, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Rice, Scott | 23 min |
| May 29, 6:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Steele | 24 min |
| May 29, 6:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Nicollet | 33 min |
| May 29, 6:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Watonwan | 30 min |
| May 29, 6:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Freeborn | 24 min |
| May 29, 6:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Martin | 34 min |
| May 29, 6:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Martin | 27 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.