Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2003, 5:44 PM CDT for Anoka County, Sherburne County, Minnesota. It was in force for 61 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
- Jul 14, 2003, 5:44 PM CDT (22:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2003, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Anoka County, MN, Sherburne County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:47 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 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
- 34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -643 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1461 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
575
WUUS53 KMPX 142244
SVRMPX
MNC003-141-142345-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
541 PM CDT MON JUL 14 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN SHERBURNE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
ANOKA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 645 PM CDT
* AT 541 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED TWO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE
HAIL...ONE 3 MILES NORTH OF ELK RIVER...THE OTHER 5 MILES NORTH OF
BIG LAKE....MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ANDOVER.
BIG LAKE.
EAST BETHEL.
ELK RIVER.
HAM LAKE.
ST FRANCIS.
ZIMMERMAN.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH LARGE HAIL...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.
LAT...LON 4541 9367 4532 9367 4530 9351 4520 9337
4518 9322 4521 9302 4541 9303
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 9:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker | 47 min |
| Jul 14, 10:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sherburne | 37 min |
| Jul 14, 10:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sherburne | 30 min |
| Jul 14, 1:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wright | 52 min |
| Jul 14, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 54 min |
| Jul 14, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sherburne, Stearns, Wright | 63 min |
| Jul 14, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago | 66 min |
| Jul 14, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Washington | 61 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.