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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2003, 7:23 PM CDT for Pope County, Minnesota. It was in force for 37 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
- Jun 22, 2003, 7:23 PM CDT (00:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2003, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pope County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 180 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 1597 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1108 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 5.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS53 KMPX 230023
SVRMPX
MNC121-230100-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
722 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
POPE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 800 PM CDT
* AT 722 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE
HAIL 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF STARBUCK...OR ABOUT 9 MILES EAST OF
MORRIS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
GLENWOOD.
LONG BEACH.
LOWRY.
STARBUCK.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING.
LAT...LON 4573 9574 4545 9572 4558 9535 4575 9520
4576 9551
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Mille Lacs | 35 min |
| Jun 22, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker | 41 min |
| Jun 22, 11:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Meeker | 24 min |
| Jun 22, 11:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Meeker | 22 min |
| Jun 23, 4:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur | 48 min |
| Jun 23, 7:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood | 42 min |
| Jun 23, 1:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 49 min |
| Jun 23, 1:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope | 40 min |
| Jun 23, 1:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Todd | 41 min |
| Jun 23, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 33 min |
| Jun 23, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 35 min |
| Jun 23, 4:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Stearns | 113 min |
| Jun 23, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker, Stearns | 63 min |
| Jun 23, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Meeker | 30 min |
| Jun 23, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Renville | 24 min |
| Jun 23, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Renville | 14 min |
| Jun 23, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker | 28 min |
| Jun 23, 5:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Renville | 31 min |
| Jun 23, 5:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Douglas, Todd | 2 hr |
| Jun 23, 6:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Renville | 37 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.