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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Twin Cities, MN

May 5, 2002Kandiyohi County, Meeker County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2002, 5:42 PM CDT for Kandiyohi County, Meeker County, Minnesota. It was in force for 48 min. 2 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: May 5, 2002, 5:42 PM CDT (22:42 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 2002, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Kandiyohi County, MN, Meeker County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:44 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
May 5, 5:50 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Atwater, MN
May 5, 5:55 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Grove City, 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 nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 101 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1967 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 145 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.

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 052242
SVRMSP
MNC067-093-052330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
541 PM CDT SUN MAY 5 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  KANDIYOHI COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  MEEKER COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 541 PM CDT...SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE   
THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WILLMAR...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. 
THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED ONE INCH HAIL NEAR WILLMAR.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  ATWATER.
  DARWIN.
  GROVE CITY.
  KANDIYOHI.
  LITCHFIELD.
  WILLMAR.

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

LAT...LON 4512 9515 4500 9496 4507 9436 4529 9451

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi, Meeker, Stearns	45 min
May 5, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Renville	31 min
May 5, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Wright	33 min
May 5, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver, Hennepin, McLeod	42 min
May 5, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Wright	60 min
May 5, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Anoka, Redwood, Sherburne, Yellow Medicine	43 min
May 5, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Hennepin, Ramsey, Washington	56 min
May 5, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Renville	64 min
May 5, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Redwood	53 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.