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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 27, 2003Watonwan County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2003, 4:58 PM CDT for Watonwan County, Minnesota. It was in force for 47 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 27, 2003, 4:58 PM CDT (21:58 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 2003, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Watonwan County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:00 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 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 131 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2003-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2003-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 99 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1466 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
144 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

612 
WUUS53 KMPX 272158
SVRMPX
MNC165-272245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
458 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WATONWAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 458 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE
  HAIL 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DARFUR...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  WINDOM...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  BUTTERFIELD.
  DARFUR.
  LEWISVILLE.
  ST JAMES.

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

LAT...LON 4410 9500 4388 9486 4386 9438 4404 9440

$$
JPR

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 5:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMartin64 min
Jun 27, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXMartin30 min
Jun 27, 6:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXFaribault41 min
Jun 27, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXFreeborn60 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.