Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 118, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 2003, 7:00 PM CDT for Meeker County, Minnesota. It was in force for 30 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 19, 2003, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2003, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Meeker County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 19, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Jul 19, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 3136 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 793 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.9
- Supercell composite
- 13.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS53 KMPX 200000
SVRMPX
MNC093-200030-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
659 PM CDT SAT JUL 19 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
MEEKER COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 730 PM CDT
* AT 659 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE
HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF LITCHFIELD...MOVING
SOUTH AT 20 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CEDAR MILLS.
COSMOS.
DARWIN.
DASSEL.
GROVE CITY.
KINGSTON.
LITCHFIELD.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING.
LAT...LON 4523 9429 4520 9472 4491 9470 4491 9453
4498 9453 4500 9430
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker, Renville | 47 min |
| Jul 19, 7:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Meeker, Renville | 41 min |
| Jul 19, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Sibley | 61 min |
| Jul 19, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Nicollet | 41 min |
| Jul 20, 3:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine | 54 min |
| Jul 20, 5:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle | 52 min |
| Jul 20, 5:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 36 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.