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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 145, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 18, 2001Carver County, McLeod County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2001, 6:20 AM CDT for Carver County, McLeod County, Minnesota. It was in force for 40 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 18, 2001, 6:20 AM CDT (11:20 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 2001, 7:00 AM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Carver County, MN, McLeod County, MN

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 18, 5:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 35 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 38 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -195 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1536 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 289 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 181120
SVRMSP
MNC019-085-129-181200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
620 AM CDT MON JUN 18 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MCLEOD COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  WESTERN CARVER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  EASTERN RENVILLE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 700 AM CDT

* AT 620 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE
  HAIL 3 MILES SOUTH OF BUFFALO LAKE...OR ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  HUTCHINSON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  WACONIA.
  GLENCOE.+
  HUTCHINSON.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH LARGE HAIL...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Goodhue	49 min
Jun 17, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota, Washington	44 min
Jun 18, 3:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Todd	52 min
Jun 18, 4:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Morrison	39 min
Jun 18, 4:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Mille Lacs	50 min
Jun 18, 5:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Benton	42 min
Jun 18, 5:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kanabec	49 min
Jun 18, 5:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chisago, Isanti	60 min
Jun 18, 6:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Washington	45 min
Jun 18, 6:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Renville	40 min
Jun 18, 6:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Brown, Nicollet	49 min
Jun 18, 6:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Sibley	49 min
Jun 18, 7:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	McLeod	25 min
Jun 18, 7:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver, Scott	52 min
Jun 18, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Benton, Mille Lacs	49 min

Nearby

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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.