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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 120, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 19, 2002Stevens County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2002, 7:07 PM CDT for Stevens County, Minnesota. It was in force for 23 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 19, 2002, 7:07 PM CDT (00:07 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2002, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Stevens County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 195 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:06 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 19, 7:10 PM CDT	Hail 1	Hancock, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 19, 3:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 192 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: 2056 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -253 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1172 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 340 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 424 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 200007
SVRMSP
MNC149-200030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
706 PM CDT WED JUN 19 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  STEVENS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 706 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE
  HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HANCOCK...OR ABOUT    
  9 MILES SOUTH OF MORRIS...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. DIME SIZE HAIL    
  WAS REPORTED 5 MILES EAST OF ARTICHOKE AT 643 PM. 

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  HANCOCK.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. 
REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR 
NO ADVANCE WARNING.

LAT...LON 4556 9595 4542 9591 4543 9576 4559 9577
&

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 7:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Swift	28 min
Jun 19, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Douglas, Todd	45 min
Jun 19, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Pope	42 min
Jun 19, 7:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Stearns	31 min
Jun 19, 8:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Stearns	29 min
Jun 19, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Morrison	56 min
Jun 19, 9:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Benton, Stearns	37 min
Jun 19, 10:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Wright	35 min
Jun 19, 11:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	McLeod	40 min

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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.