Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2003, 2:07 AM CDT for Carver County, Scott County, Minnesota. It was in force for 38 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 24, 2003, 2:07 AM CDT (07:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2003, 2:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Carver County, MN, Scott County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:10 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 24, 12:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 15 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
529
WUUS53 KMPX 240707
SVRMPX
MNC019-139-240745-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
206 AM CDT TUE JUN 24 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CARVER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
SCOTT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 245 AM CDT
* AT 206 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 3 MILES SOUTH OF MAYER TO 21 MILES
SOUTH OF JORDAN...OR 23 MILES EAST OF HUTCHINSON TO 12 MILES
NORTHWEST OF FARIBAULT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WACONIA.
BELLE PLAINE.
YOUNG AMERICA.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING.
LAT...LON 4466 9385 4471 9398 4482 9392 4498 9388
4497 9377 4490 9377 4490 9365 4465 9328
4456 9371
$$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 23, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 42 min |
| Jun 24, 12:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Watonwan | 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
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.