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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 146, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 25, 2002Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2002, 6:41 PM CDT for Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota. It was in force for 64 min. 11 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, 6:41 PM CDT (23:41 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 2002, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lac qui Parle County, MN

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 25, 6:50 PM CDTHail 1Dawson, MN
Jun 25, 7:00 PM CDTHail 1Ortonville, MN
Jun 25, 7:15 PM CDTHail 1.75Bellingham, MN
Jun 25, 7:40 PM CDTHail 1.5Madison, MN
Jun 25, 7:40 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52 EMadison, MNSeveral trees and power lines down.
Jun 25, 7:41 PM CDTHail 0.88Madison, MN
Jun 25, 7:45 PM CDTHail 1.75Madison, MN
Jun 25, 7:45 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 55 EMadison, MNTwelve inch diameter tree down.
Jun 25, 7:48 PM CDTHail 1.75Madison, MN
Jun 25, 7:55 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 55 EDawson, MNPath up to 1 mile wide. Crop Damage. Large trees down. Power lines down.
Jun 25, 7:55 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52 EDawson, MNTrees down.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 25, 2:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 164 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2002-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 529 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2002-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 47 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
529 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-324 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1156 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 252341
SVRMSP
MNC073-260045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
641 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 641 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE
  HAIL 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF BELLINGHAM...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTH OF
  MILBANK...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  BELLINGHAM.
  DAWSON.
  LOUISBURG.
  MADISON.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING.

LAT...LON 4542 9659 4529 9675 4482 9604 4495 9580

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 7:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXWright58 min
Jun 24, 7:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXWright33 min
Jun 24, 7:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMcLeod, Meeker39 min
Jun 24, 8:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXCarver, Hennepin, Wright60 min
Jun 24, 8:57 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMPXCarver, Hennepin, McLeod, Wright3 hr
Jun 24, 10:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXLac qui Parle49 min
Jun 24, 10:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXWright42 min
Jun 24, 10:55 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXCarver, Wright35 min
Jun 24, 11:11 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMPXMeeker5 hr
Jun 24, 11:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXChippewa52 min
Jun 24, 11:48 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMPXHennepin, Meeker, Wright4 hr
Jun 25, 12:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMeeker44 min
Jun 25, 1:37 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMPXCarver, McLeod2 hr
Jun 25, 5:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXLac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine57 min
Jun 25, 5:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXKanabec40 min
Jun 25, 6:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBenton, Mille Lacs43 min
Jun 25, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXKanabec47 min
Jun 25, 6:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXIsanti50 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.