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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 157, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2001, 7:50 PM CDT for Waseca County, Minnesota. It was in force for 40 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 2001, 7:50 PM CDT (00:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 2001, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Waseca County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:52 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 8:10 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | New Richland, MN | |
| Jun 18, 8:13 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Waseca, MN |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
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, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 2360 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1718 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 13.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 190051 SVRMSP MNC161-190130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 750 PM CDT MON JUN 18 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WASECA COUNTY IN MINNESOTA * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 750 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER WALDORF...OR ABOUT 14 MILE'S SOUTHWEST OF WASECA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... WASECA. WILTON. NEW RICHLAND. WALDORF. LAT...LON 4394 9376 4385 9358 4404 9341 4417 9365
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 7:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Isanti, Kanabec | 31 min |
| Jun 18, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chisago | 35 min |
| Jun 18, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault | 44 min |
| Jun 18, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Steele | 58 min |
| Jun 18, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Steele | 19 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.