Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 109, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2002, 3:51 PM CDT for Hennepin County, Scott County, Minnesota. It was in force for 39 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 7, 2002, 3:51 PM CDT (20:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2002, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Hennepin County, MN, Scott County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 386 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 072051 SVRMSP MNC053-139-072130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 350 PM CDT FRI JUN 7 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EXTREME SOUTHERN HENNEPIN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA SCOTT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 430 PM CDT * AT 350 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 13 MILES WEST OF SHAKOPEE...OR ABOUT 23 MILES WEST OF BURNSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... EDEN PRAIRIE. PRIOR LAKE. SAVAGE. SHAKOPEE. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH LARGE HAIL...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4467 9370 4463 9333 4487 9331 4487 9351
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, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, McLeod, Sibley | 46 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.