Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2024
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 2024, 4:53 PM CDT for Freeborn County, Steele County, Minnesota. It was in force for 46 min. 4 reports 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 21, 2024, 4:53 PM CDT (21:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 21, 2024, 5:39 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Freeborn County, MN, Steele County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 21, 5:00 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Hollandale, MN | Emergency Manager reported trees and power poles snapped one quarter mile east of Hollandale. |
| May 21, 5:00 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Hollandale, MN | Emergency Manager reported trees and power poles snapped one quarter mile east of Hollandale. |
| May 21, 5:00 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Hollandale, MN | Correcting LSR time. Trees and powerlines down a quarter mile west of Hollandale in Freeborn Co. Time estimated by radar. |
| May 21, 5:28 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Hollandale, MN | Trees and powerlines down a quarter mile west of Hollandale in Freeborn Co. |
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 21, 1:14 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 840 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
389
WUUS53 KMPX 212153
SVRMPX
MNC047-147-212300-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0013.240521T2153Z-240521T2300Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
453 PM CDT Tue May 21 2024
The National Weather Service in the Twin Cities has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Eastern Freeborn County in south central Minnesota...
Southeastern Steele County in south central Minnesota...
* Until 600 PM CDT.
* At 453 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Hayward, or 6
miles east of Albert Lea, moving northeast at 65 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Blooming Prairie, Glenville, London, Hollandale, Hayward, Myrtle,
Steele Center, Rice Lake State Park, Bixby, and Myre Big Island
State Park.
This includes the following highways...
Interstate 90 between mile markers 162 and 173.
U.S. Highway 14 between mile markers 178 and 182.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Large hail, damaging wind, and continuous cloud to ground lightning
are occurring with this storm. Move indoors immediately. Lightning is
one of nature's leading killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder,
you are close enough to be struck by lightning.
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 900 PM CDT for south central
Minnesota.
&&
LAT...LON 4385 9321 4406 9316 4415 9305 4350 9305
4350 9335
TIME...MOT...LOC 2153Z 209DEG 58KT 4366 9324
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...<.75 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH
$$
ETA1 follow-up statement
156
WWUS53 KMPX 212239
SVSMPX
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
539 PM CDT Tue May 21 2024
MNC047-147-212249-
/O.CAN.KMPX.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-240521T2300Z/
Freeborn MN-Steele MN-
539 PM CDT Tue May 21 2024
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN FREEBORN AND
SOUTHEASTERN STEELE COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
The storm which prompted the warning has moved out of the area.
Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 900 PM CDT for south central
Minnesota.
&&
LAT...LON 4385 9321 4406 9316 4415 9305 4350 9305
4350 9335
TIME...MOT...LOC 2236Z 209DEG 58KT 4432 9273
$$
ETAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 8:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Goodhue | 29 min |
| May 20, 8:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Goodhue | 30 min |
| May 20, 9:08 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MPX | Redwood, Renville | 25 hr |
| May 20, 9:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Freeborn | 23 min |
| May 20, 10:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Sibley | 45 min |
| May 20, 11:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Martin | 37 min |
| May 20, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Redwood, Renville, Sibley | 36 min |
| May 20, 11:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Martin | 33 min |
| May 20, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Renville, Sibley | 25 min |
| May 21, 12:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice | 27 min |
| May 21, 12:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | McLeod | 26 min |
| May 21, 1:27 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chisago | 33 min |
| May 21, 1:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago | 36 min |
| May 21, 3:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Martin | 46 min |
| May 21, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn, Steele, Waseca | 43 min |
| May 21, 4:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth | 34 min |
| May 21, 4:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Waseca | 33 min |
| May 21, 4:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Martin, Nicollet, Watonwan | 3 hr |
| May 21, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 44 min |
| May 21, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Goodhue, Rice, Steele | 40 min |
| May 21, 5:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue | 22 min |
| May 21, 5:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Hennepin, Ramsey, Washington | 54 min |
| May 21, 6:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Ramsey | 56 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.