Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2018
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2018, 4:26 PM CDT for Sherburne County, Wright County, Minnesota. It was in force for 34 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, 4:26 PM CDT (21:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2018, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Sherburne County, MN, Wright County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 4:30 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 2 N Becker, MN |
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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 63 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.
179
WUUS53 KMPX 292126
SVRMPX
MNC141-171-292200-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0052.180529T2126Z-180529T2200Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
426 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2018
The National Weather Service in The Twin Cities has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
North central Wright County in central Minnesota...
Western Sherburne County in central Minnesota...
* Until 500 PM CDT
* At 426 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Maple Lake,
or near Buffalo, moving north at 50 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* This severe thunderstorm will be near,
Monticello around 435 PM CDT.
Big Lake, Becker and Clear Lake around 440 PM CDT.
Other locations impacted by this severe thunderstorm include Enfield,
Buffalo Airport, Santiago, Hasty, Silver Creek and St Cloud Airport.
This includes the following highways...
Interstate 94 in Minnesota between mile markers 179 and 193.
U.S. Highway 10 in Minnesota between mile markers 181 and 202.
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 4514 9383 4517 9408 4536 9409 4543 9405
4545 9410 4555 9411 4555 9372
TIME...MOT...LOC 2126Z 198DEG 44KT 4523 9394
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
JLT3 follow-up statements
427
WWUS53 KMPX 292140
SVSMPX
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
440 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2018
MNC141-171-292200-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0052.000000T0000Z-180529T2200Z/
Wright MN-Sherburne MN-
440 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2018
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CDT
FOR NORTH CENTRAL WRIGHT AND WESTERN SHERBURNE COUNTIES...
At 440 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Becker, or 16
miles north of Buffalo, moving north at 55 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
this severe thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of north
central Wright and western Sherburne Counties, including the
following locations: Enfield, Buffalo Airport, Santiago, Hasty,
Silver Creek and St Cloud Airport.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
&&
LAT...LON 4514 9383 4517 9408 4536 9409 4543 9405
4545 9410 4555 9411 4555 9372
TIME...MOT...LOC 2140Z 190DEG 50KT 4542 9389
HAIL...0.88IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
JLT342
WWUS53 KMPX 292152
SVSMPX
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
452 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2018
MNC141-171-292200-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0052.000000T0000Z-180529T2200Z/
Wright MN-Sherburne MN-
452 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2018
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CDT
FOR NORTH CENTRAL WRIGHT AND WESTERN SHERBURNE COUNTIES...
At 452 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Santiago, or 17
miles east of St. Cloud, 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.
Locations impacted include...
St. Cloud, Buffalo, Monticello, Big Lake, Becker, Maple Lake,
Clearwater, Clear Lake, Santiago, Silver Creek, Enfield and Buffalo
Airport.
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 4514 9383 4517 9408 4536 9409 4543 9405
4545 9410 4555 9411 4555 9372
TIME...MOT...LOC 2152Z 198DEG 44KT 4557 9382
HAIL...0.88IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
JLT826
WWUS53 KMPX 292156
SVSMPX
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
456 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2018
MNC141-171-292206-
/O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0052.000000T0000Z-180529T2200Z/
Wright MN-Sherburne MN-
456 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2018
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL WRIGHT AND
WESTERN SHERBURNE COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 500 PM CDT...
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and has exited the warned area. Therefore, the warning will
be allowed to expire. However gusty winds are still possible with
this thunderstorm.
A severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect until 800 PM CDT for
central Minnesota.
LAT...LON 4514 9383 4517 9408 4536 9409 4543 9405
4545 9410 4555 9411 4555 9372
TIME...MOT...LOC 2156Z 198DEG 44KT 4561 9380
$$
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, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod | 32 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, 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.