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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2003, 11:33 PM CDT for Pope County, Minnesota. It was in force for 42 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, 11:33 PM CDT (04:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2003, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pope County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 174 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 171 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.
612 WUUS53 KMPX 030433 SVRMPX MNC121-030515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1133 PM CDT WED JUL 2 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... POPE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1215 AM CDT * AT 1133 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS 5 TO 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MORRIS...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... GLENWOOD. LONG BEACH. STARBUCK. TERRACE. GILCHRIST. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4549 9564 4549 9538 4567 9539 4567 9565 $$
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, 11:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Morrison, Stearns, Todd | 55 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.