Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2003, 4:47 PM CDT for Morrison County, Stearns County, Todd County, Minnesota. It was in force for 43 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, 4:47 PM CDT (21:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2003, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Morrison County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Todd County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 24, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1284 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS53 KMPX 242147
SVRMPX
MNC097-145-153-242230-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
445 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
TODD COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
MORRISON COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
STEARNS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 530 PM CDT
* AT 445 PM CDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 4 MILES WAS
NORTH OF SAUK CENTRE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTH OF LONG PRAIRIE...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS
DEVELOPING NORTH OF LITTLE FALLS.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LITTLE FALLS.
LONG PRAIRIE.
SAUK CENTRE.
HARDING
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING.
LAT...LON 4577 9513 4568 9489 4597 9385 4646 9384
4626 9469
$$
RJN/BAPThe 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, 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, 4:56 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.