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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Twin Cities, MN

May 22, 2003Pope County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2003, 7:12 PM CDT for Pope County, Minnesota. It was in force for 33 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
May 22, 2003, 7:12 PM CDT (00:12 UTC)
Expired
May 22, 2003, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
33 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), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 165 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 00:00Z on 2003-05-23Temperature 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 00:00Z on 2003-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 166 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
695 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
166 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
249 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.

677 
WUUS53 KMPX 230012
SVRMPX
MNC121-230045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
712 PM CDT THU MAY 22 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  POPE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 712 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE
  HAIL 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF STARBUCK...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  GLENWOOD...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  STARBUCK.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING.

LAT...LON 4562 9534 4566 9561 4544 9570 4543 9528

$$

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.