Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 282, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2002, 7:27 PM CDT for Lac qui Parle County, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. It was in force for 63 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 16, 2002, 7:27 PM CDT (00:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2002, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Lac qui Parle County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 7:39 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Dawson, MN | |
| Aug 16, 8:17 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Clarkfield, MN | Power pole snapped in half. |
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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -501 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 802 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 424 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.6
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, McLeod, Sibley | 60 min |
| Aug 16, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood | 53 min |
| Aug 16, 8:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 40 min |
| Aug 16, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Renville | 60 min |
| Aug 16, 8:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Redwood | 36 min |
| Aug 16, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Sibley | 45 min |
| Aug 16, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Sibley, Wright | 47 min |
| Aug 16, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Le Sueur, Nicollet, Scott | 50 min |
| Aug 16, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice | 43 min |
| Aug 16, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Sibley | 38 min |
| Aug 16, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Stearns | 52 min |
| Aug 16, 11:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Scott | 41 min |
| Aug 16, 11:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood, Renville | 48 min |
| Aug 16, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Isanti, Sherburne | 62 min |
| Aug 16, 11:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Mille Lacs | 27 min |
| Aug 16, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue | 47 min |
| Aug 16, 11:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Todd | 57 min |
| Aug 16, 11:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle | 53 min |
| Aug 17, 12:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, McLeod | 43 min |
| Aug 17, 12:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 58 min |
| Aug 17, 12:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pierce | 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.