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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2003, 1:49 PM CDT for Todd County, Minnesota. It was in force for 41 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 23, 2003, 1:49 PM CDT (18:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2003, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Todd County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:50 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 23, 1:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 627 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 795 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
067 WUUS53 KMPX 231849 SVRMPX MNC153-231930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 148 PM CDT MON JUN 23 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... TODD COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 230 PM CDT * AT 148 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF WEST UNION...OR ABOUT OVER ALEXANDRIA...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BURTRUM. GREY EAGLE. LONG PRAIRIE. WEST UNION. AT 140 PM DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 73 MPH WERE REPORTED AT ALEXANDRIA. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...SEEK SHELTER NOW LAT...LON 4601 9514 4578 9513 4579 9465 4605 9467 & $$ RAH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope | 37 min |
| 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, 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.