Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 2021, 10:53 AM CDT for Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. It was in force for 52 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 28, 2021, 10:53 AM CDT (15:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 2021, 11:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Kandiyohi County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 7:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 1550 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 676 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted.
874
WUUS53 KMPX 281553
SVRMPX
MNC067-281645-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0103.210828T1553Z-210828T1645Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
1053 AM CDT Sat Aug 28 2021
The National Weather Service in the Twin Cities has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Northern Kandiyohi County in central Minnesota...
* Until 1145 AM CDT.
* At 1052 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 10 miles
northeast of Murdock, or 19 miles northwest of Willmar, moving east
at 35 mph.
HAZARD...Ping pong ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Trained weather spotters.
IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect hail
damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect
wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* This severe thunderstorm will be near...
New London around 1120 AM CDT.
Other locations impacted by this severe thunderstorm include Hawick,
Norway Lake, Green Lake, Sunburg and Regal.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 4541 9525 4542 9479 4541 9477 4521 9475
4524 9525
TIME...MOT...LOC 1552Z 270DEG 31KT 4536 9528
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.50 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH
$$1 follow-up statement
715
WWUS53 KMPX 281636
SVSMPX
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
1136 AM CDT Sat Aug 28 2021
MNC067-281645-
/O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0103.000000T0000Z-210828T1645Z/
Kandiyohi MN-
1136 AM CDT Sat Aug 28 2021
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN KANDIYOHI COUNTY WILL
EXPIRE AT 1145 AM CDT...
The storm which prompted the warning has moved out of the area.
Therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until noon CDT for
central and west central Minnesota.
LAT...LON 4541 9525 4542 9479 4541 9477 4521 9475
4524 9525
TIME...MOT...LOC 1635Z 270DEG 31KT 4536 9476
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 8:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 4 hr |
| Aug 27, 11:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Freeborn | 87 min |
| Aug 28, 8:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Stevens | 61 min |
| Aug 28, 9:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle | 33 min |
| Aug 28, 9:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope, Stevens | 56 min |
| Aug 28, 9:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Swift | 51 min |
| Aug 28, 10:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Swift | 44 min |
| Aug 28, 10:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope, Stearns, Todd | 49 min |
| Aug 28, 11:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 40 min |
| Aug 28, 11:24 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Stearns | 36 min |
| Aug 28, 11:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison, Todd | 43 min |
| Aug 28, 11:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Sherburne | 45 min |
| Aug 28, 12:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Benton, Mille Lacs | 41 min |
| Aug 28, 12:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs | 48 min |
| Aug 28, 12:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Anoka | 47 min |
| Aug 28, 1:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chisago | 23 min |
| Aug 28, 1:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago, Isanti | 46 min |
| Aug 28, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Redwood, Watonwan | 54 min |
| Aug 28, 6:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Brown, Redwood | 26 min |
| Aug 28, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Martin, Watonwan | 64 min |
| Aug 28, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Nicollet, Redwood, Renville, Sibley and 1 more | 62 min |
| Aug 28, 6:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Brown, Nicollet | 24 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.