Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2020
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2020, 2:04 AM CDT for Meeker County, Wright County, Minnesota. It was in force for 26 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
- Aug 10, 2020, 2:04 AM CDT (07:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2020, 2:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Meeker County, MN, Wright County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:04 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 nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 2342 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1184 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.5
The text
As transmitted.
605
WUUS53 KMPX 100704
SVRMPX
MNC093-171-100730-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0103.200810T0704Z-200810T0730Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
204 AM CDT Mon Aug 10 2020
The National Weather Service in The Twin Cities has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southwestern Wright County in central Minnesota...
East central Meeker County in central Minnesota...
* Until 230 AM CDT.
* At 204 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 7 miles north of
Dassel, or 19 miles west of Buffalo, moving east at 30 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.
* Locations impacted include...
Annandale, Cokato, Maple Lake, Howard Lake, French Lake, South
Haven, Rassat and Smith Lake.
This includes U.S. Highway 12 between mile markers 122 and 127.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 4524 9392 4503 9402 4515 9436 4528 9432
4528 9427 4530 9425
TIME...MOT...LOC 0704Z 290DEG 28KT 4518 9427
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
JRB1 follow-up statement
924
WWUS53 KMPX 100713
SVSMPX
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
213 AM CDT Mon Aug 10 2020
MNC093-100722-
/O.CAN.KMPX.SV.W.0103.000000T0000Z-200810T0730Z/
Meeker MN-
213 AM CDT Mon Aug 10 2020
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL MEEKER COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
The severe thunderstorm which prompted the warning has moved out of
the warned area. Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.
LAT...LON 4524 9392 4512 9397 4507 9400 4516 9426
4524 9427 4529 9426 4530 9425
TIME...MOT...LOC 0712Z 279DEG 28KT 4522 9418
$$
MNC171-100730-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0103.000000T0000Z-200810T0730Z/
Wright MN-
213 AM CDT Mon Aug 10 2020
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 230 AM CDT
FOR SOUTHWESTERN WRIGHT COUNTY...
At 212 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Annandale, or
15 miles west of Buffalo, moving east at 30 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to
roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Annandale, Maple Lake, French Lake, South Haven and Rassat.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 4524 9392 4512 9397 4507 9400 4516 9426
4524 9427 4529 9426 4530 9425
TIME...MOT...LOC 0712Z 279DEG 28KT 4522 9418
HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
JRBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 7:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Hennepin | 23 min |
| Aug 9, 8:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Hennepin | 47 min |
| Aug 9, 8:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Scott | 88 min |
| Aug 9, 9:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Scott | 30 min |
| Aug 9, 9:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Carver | 54 min |
| Aug 9, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver | 45 min |
| Aug 9, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin, Scott | 51 min |
| Aug 9, 10:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Hennepin | 46 min |
| Aug 9, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin, Sherburne, Wright | 48 min |
| Aug 9, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Hennepin, Scott | 27 min |
| Aug 9, 10:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wright | 57 min |
| Aug 9, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 44 min |
| Aug 9, 11:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wright | 50 min |
| Aug 9, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 49 min |
| Aug 10, 12:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wright | 32 min |
| Aug 10, 12:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 49 min |
| Aug 10, 12:42 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Hennepin | 63 min |
| Aug 10, 12:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Hennepin | 51 min |
| Aug 10, 1:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Hennepin, Scott | 39 min |
| Aug 10, 1:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Hennepin | 61 min |
| Aug 10, 1:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Carver, Hennepin, Scott | 4 hr |
| Aug 10, 1:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Hennepin, Washington | 48 min |
| Aug 10, 2:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice, Scott | 37 min |
| Aug 10, 2:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Scott | 40 min |
| Aug 10, 2:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wright | 44 min |
| Aug 10, 2:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Rice, Scott | 49 min |
| Aug 10, 2:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Scott | 32 min |
| Aug 10, 3:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin | 54 min |
| Aug 10, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kanabec, Mille Lacs | 45 min |
| Aug 10, 3:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue, Rice | 46 min |
| Aug 10, 3:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Sherburne | 56 min |
| Aug 10, 3:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice | 44 min |
| Aug 10, 3:58 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Dakota | 32 min |
| Aug 10, 4:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue, Rice | 50 min |
| Aug 10, 4:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Steele, Waseca | 59 min |
| Aug 10, 5:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Steele, Waseca | 22 min |
| Aug 10, 5:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue, Rice | 17 min |
| Aug 10, 7:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Blue Earth | 31 min |
| Aug 10, 8:03 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Waseca | 27 min |
| Aug 10, 8:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Waseca | 35 min |
| Aug 10, 8:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Steele | 28 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.