Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2002, 11:32 PM CDT for Blue Earth County, Brown County, Nicollet County, Minnesota. It was in force for 43 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
- Jun 3, 2002, 11:32 PM CDT (04:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2002, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Nicollet County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 11:35 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Searles, MN | Ground white. |
| Jun 3, 11:40 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Cambria, 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 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 497 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
655 WUUS53 KMPX 040432 SVRMSP MNC013-015-103-040515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1131 PM CDT MON JUN 3 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN BROWN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA NICOLLET COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA NORTHERN BLUE EARTH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1215 AM CDT * AT 1131 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COURTLAND...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF NEW ULM...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... SEARLES COURTLAND. NICOLLET. SKYLINE. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH LARGE HAIL...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4425 9457 4416 9456 4411 9403 4438 9410
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Nicollet | 46 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.