Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2003, 2:22 AM CDT for 4 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 53 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, 2:22 AM CDT (07:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2003, 3:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Dakota County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Washington County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:25 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 32 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.
143
WUUS53 KMPX 240722
SVRMPX
MNC037-053-123-163-240815-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
220 AM CDT TUE JUN 24 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
HENNEPIN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
RAMSEY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
DAKOTA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 315 AM CDT
* AT 217 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH
DAMAGING WINDS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
MAPLE PLAIN TO 12 MILES SOUTH OF FARMINGTON...OR ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 26 MILES WEST OF MINNEAPOLIS TO 14 MILES NORTH OF
FARIBAULT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BURNSVILLE.
MINNEAPOLIS.
ST PAUL.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...WITH DAMAGING WINDS. STAY INDOORS AWAY
FROM WINDOWS.
LAT...LON 4464 9332 4479 9334 4481 9348 4505 9373
4517 9293 4486 9275 4469 9275 4452 9321
$$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, 2:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Scott | 38 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.