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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Twin Cities, MN

July 3, 2003Wright County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2003, 12:23 AM CDT for Wright County, Minnesota. It was in force for 37 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 3, 2003, 12:23 AM CDT (05:23 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2003, 1:00 AM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wright County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 49 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 030523
SVRMPX
MNC171-030600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1220 AM CDT THU JUL 3 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WRIGHT COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 100 AM CDT

* AT 1220 AM CDT...THE LEADING EDGE OF DAMAGING WINDS EXTENDED FROM
  CLEARWATER TO SOUTH HAVEN...OR ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHEAST TO SOUTH
  OF ST CLOUD. WINDS AROUND 60 MPH ARE POSSIBLE...ENOUGH TO KNOCK
  DOWN LARGE BRANCHES AND SOME TREES. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 35
  MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  BUFFALO.
  MAPLE LAKE.
  MONTICELLO.
  ANNANDALE.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS...STAY INDOORS AWAY
FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 4517 9417 4505 9399 4519 9376 4533 9399

$$

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, 11:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Pope	42 min
Jul 2, 11:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Sherburne	43 min
Jul 3, 12:32 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.