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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 118, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 11, 2002Rice County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2002, 12:30 AM CDT for Rice County, Minnesota. It was in force for 45 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 11, 2002, 12:30 AM CDT (05:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2002, 1:15 AM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Rice County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:29 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 11, 12:32 AM CDT	Hail 0.88	Shieldsville, 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

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 60 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: 2859 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 872 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 204 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.6
Supercell composite: 9.5

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 110530
SVRMSP
MNC131-110615-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1230 AM CDT TUE JUN 11 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  RICE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 115 AM CDT

* AT 1228 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH 
  LARGE HAIL 5 TO 10 MILES WEST OF FARIBAULT. IT WAS MOVING EAST
  AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  FARIBAULT.
  MORRISTOWN.
  NERSTRAND.

HAIL AROUND ONE INCH IS POSSIBLE. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...STAY 
INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 

LAT...LON 4443 9348 4419 9348 4423 9306 4447 9308
TDK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 10:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Hennepin, Wright	37 min
Jun 10, 10:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver	50 min
Jun 10, 11:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Hennepin	41 min
Jun 10, 11:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota	42 min
Jun 11, 1:18 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Faribault, Freeborn, Martin	4 hr

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.