Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2003, 5:17 PM CDT for Kandiyohi County, Meeker County, Minnesota. It was in force for 28 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, 5:17 PM CDT (22:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2003, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Kandiyohi County, MN, Meeker County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 1:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 93 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.
357 WUUS53 KMPX 232217 SVRMPX MNC067-093-232245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 516 PM CDT MON JUN 23 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KANDIYOHI COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA MEEKER COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 545 PM CDT * AT 516 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LAKE LILLIAN...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF OLIVIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... CEDAR MILLS. COSMOS. LAKE LILLIAN. LITCHFIELD. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 4494 9495 4490 9491 4491 9452 4516 9452 $$ RAH/BAP
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, 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, 5:29 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
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003
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.