Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2002, 3:29 PM CDT for Carver County, McLeod County, Sibley 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
- Jun 7, 2002, 3:29 PM CDT (20:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2002, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Carver County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Sibley County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:32 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 7, 3:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Glencoe, MN | |
| Jun 7, 3:35 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Young America, MN | |
| Jun 7, 3:40 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Hamburg, MN | |
| Jun 7, 3:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Young America, 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 nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 344 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2358 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 072029 SVRMSP MNC019-085-143-072115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 327 PM CDT FRI JUN 7 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEAST MCLEOD COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA SOUTHERN CARVER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA EASTERN SIBLEY COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 415 PM CDT * AT 327 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GLENCOE...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HUTCHINSON...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... COLOGNE. GLENCOE. GREEN ISLE. HAMBURG. NORWOOD YOUNG AMERICA. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH LARGE HAIL...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4481 9427 4465 9416 4467 9374 4484 9377
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 6, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wright | 47 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
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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.