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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 317, NWS Twin Cities, MN

September 1, 2002Dakota County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 1, 2002, 6:55 PM CDT for Dakota County, Minnesota. It was in force for 50 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: Sep 1, 2002, 6:55 PM CDT (23:55 UTC)
Expired: Sep 1, 2002, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Dakota County, MN

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 1, 12:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 44 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 319 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -200 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1215 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 208 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 219 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

590 
WUUS53 KMPX 012355
SVRMSP
MNC037-020045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
654 PM CDT SUN SEP 1 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DAKOTA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 654 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE
  HAIL OVER FARMINGTON...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BURNSVILLE...
  MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  FARMINGTON.
  HASTINGS.
  ROSEMOUNT.
  VERMILLION.
  COATES.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH LARGE HAIL...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 4473 9331 4457 9321 4465 9276 4476 9289
          4476 9299 4480 9306

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 1, 10:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kanabec	39 min
Sep 1, 11:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Mille Lacs, Morrison	39 min
Sep 1, 12:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Pope	46 min
Sep 1, 1:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Todd	40 min
Sep 1, 1:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Mille Lacs	28 min
Sep 1, 2:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Morrison, Todd	53 min
Sep 1, 2:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kanabec	51 min
Sep 1, 2:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Stearns	44 min
Sep 1, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Morrison	61 min
Sep 1, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Benton, Stearns	62 min
Sep 1, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Morrison	62 min
Sep 1, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	McLeod, Sibley	49 min
Sep 1, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Benton, Mille Lacs	44 min
Sep 1, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver, Scott, Sibley	61 min
Sep 1, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Benton, Sherburne	51 min

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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.