Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 194, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2002, 1:45 PM CDT for Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. It was in force for 45 min. 1 report 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
- Jul 27, 2002, 1:45 PM CDT (18:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2002, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kandiyohi County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 2:00 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Willmar, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 12:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 485 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1016 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
802 WUUS53 KMPX 271845 SVRMSP MNC067-271930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 145 PM CDT SAT JUL 27 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KANDIYOHI COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 230 PM CDT * AT 145 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF PENNOCK...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF WILLMAR... MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... KANDIYOHI. LAKE LILLIAN. NEW LONDON. PENNOCK. SPICER. WILLMAR. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4538 9521 4498 9522 4492 9481 4540 9479
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 10:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stevens | 30 min |
| Jul 27, 11:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope | 40 min |
| Jul 27, 12:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope, Stearns | 43 min |
| Jul 27, 12:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 50 min |
| Jul 27, 12:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Stearns | 44 min |
| Jul 27, 12:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 49 min |
| Jul 27, 1:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Mille Lacs | 50 min |
| Jul 27, 1:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 30 min |
| Jul 27, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Isanti, Kanabec | 45 min |
| Jul 27, 1:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker, Stearns | 40 min |
| Jul 27, 1:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wright | 47 min |
| Jul 27, 2:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago | 42 min |
| Jul 27, 2:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker | 43 min |
| Jul 27, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Hennepin, Wright | 50 min |
| Jul 27, 4:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Ramsey, Washington | 38 min |
| Jul 27, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn | 42 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.