Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 2021, 5:29 AM CDT for 4 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 46 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 24, 2021, 5:29 AM CDT (10:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2021, 6:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Meeker County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Wright County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 24, 2:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 501 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1780 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
405
WUUS53 KMPX 241029
SVRMPX
MNC093-141-145-171-241115-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0085.210824T1029Z-210824T1115Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
529 AM CDT Tue Aug 24 2021
The National Weather Service in the Twin Cities has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Northwestern Wright County in central Minnesota...
Northeastern Meeker County in central Minnesota...
Central Sherburne County in central Minnesota...
Southeastern Stearns County in central Minnesota...
* Until 615 AM CDT.
* At 529 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 6 miles southeast
of Rockville, or 9 miles south of St. Cloud, moving southeast at 45
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...
Clearwater around 540 AM CDT.
Clear Lake around 545 AM CDT.
Other locations in the path of this severe thunderstorm include
Becker, Monticello, Maple Lake and Big Lake.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 4549 9363 4509 9386 4528 9463 4560 9440
TIME...MOT...LOC 1029Z 296DEG 37KT 4544 9423
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH
$$
CTGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 2:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Le Sueur, Scott, Sibley | 35 min |
| Aug 24, 3:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chippewa, Douglas, Lac qui Parle, Pope, Stevens, Swift | 29 min |
| Aug 24, 3:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Scott | 32 min |
| Aug 24, 3:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope, Stevens, Swift | 43 min |
| Aug 24, 3:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Rice | 42 min |
| Aug 24, 3:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift, Yellow Medicine | 38 min |
| Aug 24, 4:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Pope, Stearns, Stevens, Swift | 52 min |
| Aug 24, 4:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Renville, Swift | 45 min |
| Aug 24, 4:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, McLeod, Meeker, Stearns | 46 min |
| Aug 24, 4:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Renville | 42 min |
| Aug 24, 5:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Goodhue | 40 min |
| Aug 24, 5:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, McLeod, Meeker, Renville, Wright | 33 min |
| Aug 24, 5:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Brown, Nicollet, Redwood, Renville, Sibley | 30 min |
| Aug 24, 5:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin, Sherburne, Wright | 33 min |
| Aug 24, 5:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, McLeod, Renville, Sibley | 31 min |
| Aug 24, 6:19 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Carver, Le Sueur, Nicollet, Rice, Scott, Sibley | 26 min |
| Aug 24, 6:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Chisago, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Washington | 35 min |
| Aug 24, 6:53 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue, Le Sueur, Rice, Scott | 67 min |
| Aug 24, 6:57 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Brown | 33 min |
| Aug 24, 7:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Ramsey, Washington | 30 min |
| Aug 24, 7:23 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Nicollet, Sibley | 37 min |
| Aug 24, 7:59 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Le Sueur, Sibley | 31 min |
| Aug 24, 8:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Wabasha | 29 min |
| Aug 24, 8:04 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Redwood | 26 min |
| Aug 24, 8:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Redwood | 30 min |
| Aug 24, 8:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Sibley | 21 min |
| Aug 24, 9:03 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Dakota | 27 min |
| Aug 24, 9:41 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Brown, Nicollet, Watonwan | 49 min |
| Aug 24, 10:23 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Martin | 37 min |
| Aug 24, 10:35 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Blue Earth | 25 min |
| Aug 24, 11:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Faribault, Martin | 44 min |
| Aug 24, 12:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Freeborn | 40 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.