Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2002, 6:34 PM CDT for Martin County, Minnesota. It was in force for 41 min. 1 report 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, 6:34 PM CDT (23:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2002, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Martin County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:37 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, 6:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Dunnell, MN | Few trees down. |
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 7, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 291 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
- 1517 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 072334 SVRMSP MNC091-080015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 634 PM CDT FRI JUN 7 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MARTIN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 634 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 5 MILES SOUTH OF DUNNELL...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF JACKSON...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... CEYLON. DUNNELL. FAIRMONT. GRANADA. NORTHROP. SHERBURN. WELCOME. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4374 9495 4339 9488 4347 9427 4375 9431
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, 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 |
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.