Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2003, 1:11 AM CDT for Stearns County, Wright County, Minnesota. It was in force for 34 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 25, 2003, 1:11 AM CDT (06:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2003, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Stearns County, MN, Wright County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:10 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, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 5332 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 859 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 288 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 7.4
- Supercell composite
- 34.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
895
WUUS53 KMPX 250611
SVRMPX
MNC145-171-250645-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
109 AM CDT WED JUN 25 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
STEARNS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
WRIGHT COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 145 AM CDT
* AT 109 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH
DAMAGING WINDS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM PAYNESVILLE TO
LITCHFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
COLD SPRING.
ANNANDALE.
COKATO.
SAINT MARTIN.
ALBANY.
BUFFALO.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING.
LAT...LON 4537 9463 4531 9425 4527 9424 4520 9421
4515 9421 4500 9420 4500 9382 4530 9382
4538 9400 4555 9422 4576 9430 4578 9473
$$
SEB/PIThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope | 38 min |
| Jun 24, 7:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | McLeod, Renville, Sibley | 48 min |
| Jun 24, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker | 31 min |
| Jun 24, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sherburne, Wright | 38 min |
| Jun 24, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker, Stearns | 49 min |
| Jun 24, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 30 min |
| Jun 24, 7:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Wright | 23 min |
| Jun 24, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Benton, Mille Lacs | 36 min |
| Jun 24, 7:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | McLeod, Renville, Sibley | 49 min |
| Jun 24, 7:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Stearns | 32 min |
| Jun 24, 8:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | McLeod, Meeker, Wright | 3 hr |
| Jun 24, 8:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker | 36 min |
| Jun 24, 8:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Sherburne, Wright | 48 min |
| Jun 24, 8:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Renville | 3 hr |
| Jun 24, 8:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 41 min |
| Jun 24, 8:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Redwood, Yellow Medicine | 38 min |
| Jun 24, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago | 46 min |
| Jun 24, 8:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle | 35 min |
| Jun 24, 8:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | McLeod, Meeker, Renville | 49 min |
| Jun 24, 8:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chisago | 47 min |
| Jun 24, 8:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Hennepin, Wright | 31 min |
| Jun 24, 9:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Swift | 43 min |
| Jun 24, 9:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | McLeod, Meeker, Renville | 29 min |
| Jun 24, 9:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Chisago | 116 min |
| Jun 24, 9:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 24 min |
| Jun 24, 9:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | McLeod, Renville | 33 min |
| Jun 24, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod | 31 min |
| Jun 24, 10:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 33 min |
| Jun 24, 11:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago, Dakota and 15 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 24, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Washington | 49 min |
| Jun 25, 12:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Martin, Watonwan | 33 min |
| Jun 25, 12:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, McLeod, Meeker, Renville, Sibley | 44 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.