Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2002, 5:50 PM CDT for Kanabec County, Minnesota. It was in force for 40 min. 3 reports 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 25, 2002, 5:50 PM CDT (22:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2002, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kanabec County, MN
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:53 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 25, 5:52 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Mora, MN | |
| Jun 25, 6:05 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Quamba, MN | |
| Jun 25, 6:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Quamba, 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 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 520 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -599 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2109 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 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 252250 SVRMSP MNC065-252330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 550 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KANABEC COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 550 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 8 MILES NORTH OF QUAMBA...OR ABOUT 9 MILES WEST OF HINCKLEY... MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... QUAMBA. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH LARGE HAIL...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4603 9339 4590 9317 4611 9305 4614 9332
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wright | 58 min |
| Jun 24, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wright | 33 min |
| Jun 24, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Meeker | 39 min |
| Jun 24, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Hennepin, Wright | 60 min |
| Jun 24, 8:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Carver, Hennepin, McLeod, Wright | 3 hr |
| Jun 24, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle | 49 min |
| Jun 24, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wright | 42 min |
| Jun 24, 10:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Carver, Wright | 35 min |
| Jun 24, 11:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Meeker | 5 hr |
| Jun 24, 11:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 52 min |
| Jun 24, 11:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Hennepin, Meeker, Wright | 4 hr |
| Jun 25, 12:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker | 44 min |
| Jun 25, 1:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Carver, McLeod | 2 hr |
| Jun 25, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine | 57 min |
| Jun 25, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Mille Lacs | 43 min |
| Jun 25, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kanabec | 47 min |
| Jun 25, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Isanti | 50 min |
| Jun 25, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle | 64 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.