Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 123, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2002, 8:34 PM CDT for Morrison County, Minnesota. It was in force for 56 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, 8:34 PM CDT (01:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2002, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Morrison County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:37 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, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 131 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 200134 SVRMSP MNC097-200230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 835 PM CDT WED JUN 19 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MORRISON COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 835 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL OVER ELMDALE...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LITTLE FALLS... MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... LITTLE FALLS. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH LARGE HAIL...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4592 9465 4579 9461 4584 9381 4610 9384
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, 7:18 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, 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
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002
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.