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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 23, 2003Douglas County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2003, 8:48 PM CDT for Douglas County, Minnesota. It was in force for 42 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, 8:48 PM CDT (01:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2003, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Douglas County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 195 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:49 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 nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 193 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1955 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1314 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 6.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

133 
WUUS53 KMPX 240148
SVRMPX
MNC041-240230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
848 PM CDT MON JUN 23 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DOUGLAS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 930 PM CDT

* AT 848 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE
  HAIL 5 MILES SOUTH OF BRANDON...OR ABOUT 12 MILES WEST OF
  ALEXANDRIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  ALEXANDRIA.
  BRANDON.
  CARLOS.
  GARFIELD.
  MILTONA.
  NELSON.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH LARGE HAIL...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 4593 9578 4578 9572 4588 9519 4610 9521

$$
RAH/BAP

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Morrison	31 min
Jun 24, 12:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Brown, Watonwan	38 min
Jun 24, 2:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver, Scott	38 min
Jun 24, 2:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Washington	53 min
Jun 24, 3:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Stevens	44 min
Jun 24, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Douglas, Pope, Stevens	47 min
Jun 24, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Morrison, Stearns, Todd	43 min
Jun 24, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Pope	34 min
Jun 24, 5:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Pope	26 min
Jun 24, 5:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Pope, Stearns	31 min
Jun 24, 5:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Yellow Medicine	25 min
Jun 24, 5:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Yellow Medicine	40 min
Jun 24, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Morrison, Stearns, Todd	49 min
Jun 24, 6:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Stearns, Todd	36 min
Jun 24, 6:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Yellow Medicine	33 min
Jun 24, 6:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	McLeod, Renville, Sibley	42 min
Jun 24, 6:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Hennepin	35 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.