Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 616
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 16, 2002, 10:00 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 16, 2002, 10:00 PM CDT (03:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 2002, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 54 counties
Anoka County, MN, Becker County, MN, Benton County, MN, Big Stone County, MN, Carver County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Chisago County, MN, Clay County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Grant County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Olmsted County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pine County, MN, Pope County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Renville County, MN, Rice County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Todd County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Wabasha County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Washington County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Wright County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN, Cass County, ND, Richland County, ND, Codington County, SD, Grant County, SD, Roberts County, SD, Burnett County, WI, Pierce County, WI, Polk County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 174 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:03 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.
Warnings issued inside it
24 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Le Sueur, Nicollet, Scott | 50 min |
| Aug 16, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Richland | 49 min |
| Aug 16, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cass | 47 min |
| Aug 16, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clay | 46 min |
| Aug 16, 10:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Wilkin | 41 min |
| Aug 16, 10:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cass, Crow Wing | 36 min |
| Aug 16, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice | 43 min |
| Aug 16, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker | 41 min |
| Aug 16, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Sibley | 38 min |
| Aug 16, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 52 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, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker | 30 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 16, 11:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 50 min |
| Aug 17, 12:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, McLeod | 43 min |
| Aug 17, 12:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Pine | 56 min |
| Aug 17, 12:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pierce | 42 min |
| Aug 17, 12:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 58 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 1:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston, Martin and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 16, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aurora, Beadle, Brookings, Brule, Buffalo, Charles Mix and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 17, 3:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Crawford, Dane, Dodge, Grant, Green, Iowa and 3 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Wisconsin, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Dakota, 2002Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2002
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.