Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2022
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 2022, 8:27 PM CDT for Dakota County, Goodhue County, Minnesota; Pierce County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 63 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 11, 2022, 8:27 PM CDT (01:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 2022, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Dakota County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Pierce County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:27 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 11, 9:30 PM CDT | HAIL 1.25 | Red Wing, MN | PHOTO PROVIDED VIA TWITTER. |
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 11, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 243 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -306 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 862 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 439 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 580 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 17.2
The text
As transmitted.
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WUUS53 KMPX 120127
SVRMPX
MNC037-049-WIC093-120230-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0092.220512T0127Z-220512T0230Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
827 PM CDT Wed May 11 2022
The National Weather Service in the Twin Cities has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Eastern Dakota County in east central Minnesota...
Goodhue County in southeastern Minnesota...
Pierce County in west central Wisconsin...
* Until 930 PM CDT.
* At 827 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Stanton, or
near Northfield, moving east at 40 mph.
HAZARD...70 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect considerable
tree damage. Wind damage is also likely to mobile homes,
roofs, and outbuildings.
* This severe thunderstorm will be near...
Cannon Falls around 840 PM CDT.
Other locations in the path of this severe thunderstorm include
Welch, Red Wing, Bay City and Frontenac.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until midnight CDT for south
central, southeastern and east central Minnesota...and west central
Wisconsin.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until midnight CDT for south
central, southeastern and east central Minnesota...and west central
Wisconsin.
&&
LAT...LON 4448 9306 4484 9303 4484 9301 4477 9301
4478 9293 4475 9281 4484 9276 4485 9223
4454 9225 4454 9231 4445 9228 4445 9243
4437 9243 4436 9255 4420 9256 4419 9305
TIME...MOT...LOC 0127Z 256DEG 36KT 4449 9307
TORNADO...POSSIBLE
THUNDERSTORM DAMAGE THREAT...CONSIDERABLE
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...70 MPH
$$
JRB1 follow-up statement
238
WWUS53 KMPX 120214
SVSMPX
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
914 PM CDT Wed May 11 2022
MNC037-049-WIC093-120230-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0092.000000T0000Z-220512T0230Z/
Dakota MN-Goodhue MN-Pierce WI-
914 PM CDT Wed May 11 2022
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 PM CDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN DAKOTA...GOODHUE AND PIERCE COUNTIES...
At 913 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Red Wing,
moving east at 35 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to
roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Bay City and Frontenac.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until midnight CDT for southeastern
and east central Minnesota...and west central Wisconsin.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 4446 9289 4475 9281 4484 9276 4485 9223
4454 9225 4454 9231 4445 9228 4445 9243
4437 9243 4436 9255 4420 9256 4419 9289
TIME...MOT...LOC 0213Z 268DEG 28KT 4450 9254
TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH
$$
JRBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Scott, Sibley | 33 min |
| May 11, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Nicollet | 63 min |
| May 11, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker, Stearns, Wright | 29 min |
| May 11, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Nicollet | 39 min |
| May 11, 7:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Kandiyohi | 95 min |
| May 11, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Rice, Scott | 63 min |
| May 11, 7:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Carver, Scott | 44 min |
| May 11, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Martin | 42 min |
| May 11, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, McLeod, Wright | 55 min |
| May 11, 7:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Rice | 37 min |
| May 11, 7:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Carver, Hennepin | 34 min |
| May 11, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 47 min |
| May 11, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker, Stearns, Wright | 44 min |
| May 11, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Rice, Scott | 47 min |
| May 11, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sherburne, Wright | 43 min |
| May 11, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Steele, Waseca | 42 min |
| May 11, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault | 36 min |
| May 11, 8:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dakota | 40 min |
| May 11, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Chisago, Ramsey, Washington | 62 min |
| May 11, 8:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin, Ramsey | 25 min |
| May 11, 8:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Waseca | 26 min |
| May 11, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 44 min |
| May 11, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago | 65 min |
| May 11, 8:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Benton, Isanti, Morrison, Sherburne | 49 min |
| May 11, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Steele, Waseca | 44 min |
| May 11, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault | 27 min |
| May 11, 8:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Anoka, Chisago, Hennepin, Ramsey, Washington | 92 min |
| May 11, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn, Waseca | 25 min |
| May 11, 9:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 38 min |
| May 11, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 27 min |
| May 11, 10:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Steele | 35 min |
| May 11, 10:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Steele | 32 min |
| May 11, 11:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Steele | 90 min |
| May 11, 11:09 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MPX | Redwood, Renville | 29 days |
| May 12, 2:21 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Nicollet, Redwood and 5 more | 4 hr |
| May 12, 4:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine | 35 min |
| May 12, 4:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift | 35 min |
| May 12, 5:25 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chippewa, Swift | 35 min |
| May 12, 6:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chippewa | 29 min |
| May 12, 6:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Stearns | 29 min |
| May 12, 6:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 23 min |
| May 12, 7:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Stearns | 25 min |
| May 12, 7:17 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Benton | 28 min |
| May 12, 7:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Stearns | 30 min |
| May 12, 7:33 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Stearns | 27 min |
| May 12, 7:36 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chippewa | 24 min |
| May 12, 7:51 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Kanabec | 24 min |
| May 12, 7:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison, Stearns, Todd | 36 min |
| May 12, 8:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Pope, Todd | 32 min |
| May 12, 9:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Pope, Swift | 30 min |
| May 12, 9:24 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Lac qui Parle, Pope, Swift | 36 min |
| May 12, 10:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Kandiyohi, Morrison, Stearns | 29 min |
| May 12, 10:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Morrison | 43 min |
| May 12, 10:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Meeker, Stearns | 26 min |
| May 12, 10:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Sherburne, Stearns | 46 min |
| May 12, 11:07 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Benton, Stearns | 83 min |
| May 12, 11:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Sherburne | 49 min |
| May 12, 11:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Isanti, Mille Lacs, Sherburne | 33 min |
| May 12, 11:44 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MPX | Redwood | 7 days |
| May 12, 12:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Sherburne | 33 min |
| May 12, 12:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Benton, Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Sherburne and 1 more | 82 min |
| May 12, 12:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec | 32 min |
| May 12, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift, Yellow Medicine | 49 min |
| May 12, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Martin, Nicollet, Redwood, Renville, Watonwan and 1 more | 58 min |
| May 12, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle, Swift | 15 min |
| May 12, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Pope, Stevens, Swift | 44 min |
| May 12, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker, Stearns | 64 min |
| May 12, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine | 26 min |
| May 12, 6:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Pope, Stearns, Swift | 17 min |
| May 12, 6:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Renville | 13 min |
| May 12, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, McLeod, Nicollet, Redwood, Renville, Sibley | 53 min |
| May 12, 6:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Pope | 17 min |
| May 11, 9:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Barron, Dunn, Pepin | 56 min |
| May 11, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pepin | 30 min |
| May 11, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire, Pepin | 55 min |
| May 11, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron, Rusk | 38 min |
| May 11, 10:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Barron, Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire, Pepin, Rusk | 89 min |
| May 11, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Eau Claire, Rusk | 67 min |
| May 12, 12:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chippewa, Eau Claire, Rusk | 29 min |
| May 12, 12:37 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chippewa | 8 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.