Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 287, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2002, 10:47 PM CDT for Rice County, Minnesota. It was in force for 43 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
- Aug 16, 2002, 10:47 PM CDT (03:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2002, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Rice County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:48 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, 10:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Lonsdale, MN | Roof partially off house, and its garage also collapsed. Several sheds down, and numerous trees were toppled. |
| Aug 16, 10:58 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Faribault, MN | Scattered trees snapped. |
| Aug 16, 11:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 E | Dundas, MN | Roof off house, three barns down, roofs off three storage buildings, one storage building blown 1/4 mile, garage collapsed, several hundred trees downed. A 56 knot gust was measured in downtown Northfield at the Public Safety Building, with 40 to 50 knot winds |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1774 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 375 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
608
WUUS53 KMPX 170347
SVRMSP
MNC131-170430-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1046 PM CDT FRI AUG 16 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
RICE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 1130 PM CDT
* AT 1046 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH
DAMAGING WINDS 4 MILES WEST OF LONSDALE...OR ABOUT 18 MILES
NORTHWEST OF FARIBAULT...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...
DUNDAS.
FARIBAULT.
LONSDALE.
MORRISTOWN.
NORTHFIELD.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING.
LAT...LON 4454 9354 4421 9350 4424 9304 4442 9308
4446 9315 4445 9328 4453 9334The 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, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine | 63 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, 10:52 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 |
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.