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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2003, 11:20 PM CDT for 4 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 55 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
- Jul 2, 2003, 11:20 PM CDT (04:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2003, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Benton County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Todd County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 1209 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -146 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1701 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
843
WUUS53 KMPX 030420
SVRMPX
MNC009-097-145-153-030515-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1118 PM CDT WED JUL 2 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
BENTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
STEARNS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 1215 AM CDT
* AT 1118 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED TWO SEVERE STORMS WITH DAMAGING
WIND AND LARGE HAIL. ONE WAS 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LITTLE FALLS.
ANOTHER WAS ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ALEXANDRIA. BOTH STORMS
WERE MOVING EAST AND SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. EXPECT 70 MPH WINDS.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ALBANY.
LITTLE FALLS.
SAUK CENTRE.
ST CLOUD.
RICE.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS...STAY INDOORS AWAY
FROM WINDOWS.
LAT...LON 4546 9506 4544 9440 4571 9403 4600 9428
4594 9508
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Todd | 61 min |
| Jul 2, 10:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Morrison, Todd | 35 min |
| Jul 2, 10:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope | 42 min |
| Jul 2, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stevens | 49 min |
| Jul 2, 11:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope | 42 min |
| Jul 2, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sherburne | 43 min |
| Jul 3, 12:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wright | 37 min |
| Jul 3, 12:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin, Sherburne | 58 min |
| Jul 3, 12:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Isanti | 40 min |
| Jul 3, 12:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago | 49 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.