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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 122, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2002, 7:18 PM CDT for Pope County, Minnesota. It was in force for 42 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 19, 2002, 7:18 PM CDT (00:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2002, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pope County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 200018 SVRMSP MNC121-200100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 718 PM CDT WED JUN 19 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... POPE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 718 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF STARBUCK...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MORRIS...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... SEDAN. STARBUCK. 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 4559 9573 4543 9573 4544 9516 4568 9516
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, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stevens | 23 min |
| Jun 19, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Todd | 45 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 |
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.