diff --git a/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup b/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
index c51083e0f..7aa9ad400 100755
--- a/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
+++ b/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
@@ -1750,7 +1750,7 @@ verify_es_version_compatibility() {
         fi
 
         echo -e "\n##############################################################################################################################\n"
-        echo "A previously required intermediate Elasticsearch upgrade was detected. Verifying that all Searchnodes/Heavynodes have successfully upgraded Elasticsearch to $es_required_version_statefile_value before proceeding with soup to avoid potential data loss!"
+        echo "A previously required intermediate Elasticsearch upgrade was detected. Verifying that all Searchnodes/Heavynodes have successfully upgraded Elasticsearch to $es_required_version_statefile_value before proceeding with soup to avoid potential data loss! This command can take up to an hour to complete."
         timeout --foreground 4000 bash "$es_verification_script" "$es_required_version_statefile_value" "$statefile"
         if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
             echo -e "\n!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\n"