Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 143, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2002, 6:17 PM CDT for Benton County, Mille Lacs County, Minnesota. It was in force for 43 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 25, 2002, 6:17 PM CDT (23:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2002, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Benton County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 102 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 252317 SVRMSP MNC009-095-260000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 615 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN MILLE LACS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA BENTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 615 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL OVER FORESTON...OR ABOUT 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MILACA... MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. GOLFALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED NEAR GILMAN. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... FOLEY. FORESTON. GILMAN. MILACA. PEASE. RONNEBY. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH LARGE HAIL...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4578 9418 4559 9403 4570 9360 4582 9366
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, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kanabec | 40 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.