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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Twin Cities, MN

July 6, 2003Douglas County, Todd County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2003, 8:57 PM CDT for Douglas County, Todd County, Minnesota. It was in force for 63 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 6, 2003, 8:57 PM CDT (01:57 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2003, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Douglas County, MN, Todd County, MN

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 6, 2:20 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr
Jul 6, 8:05 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 169 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: 2301 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1006 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

035 
WUUS53 KMPX 070157
SVRMPX
MNC041-153-070300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
855 PM CDT SUN JUL 6 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  TODD COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  EASTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT

* AT 855 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE
  HAIL 4 MILES EAST OF CARLOS...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  ALEXANDRIA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  CARLOS.
  LONG PRAIRIE.
  MILTONA.
  NELSON.
  OSAKIS.

ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING OVER ALEXANDRIA. AT 854 PM 
DIME SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN ALEXANDRIA. THIS IS A DANGEROUS 
STORM...SEEK SHELTER NOW

LAT...LON 4605 9531 4582 9533 4582 9469 4607 9470

&

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 6, 7:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Stevens	29 min
Jul 6, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Douglas	52 min
Jul 6, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Douglas	46 min
Jul 7, 1:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Morrison, Todd	34 min
Jul 7, 1:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Faribault	34 min
Jul 7, 1:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Kandiyohi	45 min
Jul 7, 1:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Freeborn, Steele, Waseca	51 min
Jul 7, 2:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Benton, Morrison, Stearns	63 min

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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.