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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 107, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 6, 2002Wright County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2002, 10:13 PM CDT for Wright County, Minnesota. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 6, 2002, 10:13 PM CDT (03:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2002, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wright County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:16 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 51 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: 27 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -280 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2051 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 336 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 771 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 070313
SVRMSP
MNC171-070400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1012 PM CDT THU JUN 6 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WRIGHT COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT

* AT 1012 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE
  HAIL OVER COKATO...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  ANNANDALE.
  BUFFALO.
  COKATO.
  HOWARD LAKE.
  MAPLE LAKE.
  MONTROSE.
  WAVERLY.

QUARTER SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM IN EASTERN MEEKER 
COUNTY. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 4528 9426 4499 9422 4500 9392 4514 9370
          4539 9398

$$

BINAU

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Wright	45 min
Jun 6, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Stearns	37 min
Jun 6, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi	43 min
Jun 6, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Meeker	50 min
Jun 6, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver, McLeod, Wright	40 min
Jun 6, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Meeker	41 min
Jun 6, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver, McLeod	40 min
Jun 6, 9:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Stearns	39 min
Jun 6, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver	46 min
Jun 6, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Meeker	46 min
Jun 6, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa	39 min
Jun 7, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver, McLeod, Sibley	46 min
Jun 7, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Hennepin, Scott	39 min
Jun 7, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Anoka, Sherburne, Wright	44 min
Jun 7, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Martin	41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2002 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.