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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 24, 2003Stearns County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 2003, 7:58 PM CDT for Stearns County, Minnesota. It was in force for 32 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: Jun 24, 2003, 7:58 PM CDT (00:58 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2003, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Stearns County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:00 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
Jun 24, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 87 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: 5332 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 859 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 171 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 288 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 7.4
Supercell composite: 34.1

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The text

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

276 
WFUS53 KMPX 250058
TORMPX
MNC145-250130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
757 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN STEARNS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 757 PM CDT... A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR ST. 
MARTIN...NORTHWEST OF COLD SPRINGS...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ST 
CLOUD...  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  PLEASANT LAKE.
  ROCKVILLE.
  SARTELL.
  ST CLOUD.
  WAITE PARK.

GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR

LAT...LON 4548 9437 4533 9431 4543 9409 4565 9422

$$
EDWARDS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Pope	38 min
Jun 24, 7:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	McLeod, Renville, Sibley	48 min
Jun 24, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Meeker	31 min
Jun 24, 7:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Sherburne, Wright	38 min
Jun 24, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi, Meeker, Stearns	49 min
Jun 24, 7:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi	30 min
Jun 24, 7:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Wright	23 min
Jun 24, 7:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Benton, Mille Lacs	36 min
Jun 24, 7:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	McLeod, Renville, Sibley	49 min
Jun 24, 8:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	McLeod, Meeker, Wright	3 hr
Jun 24, 8:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi, Meeker	36 min
Jun 24, 8:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Sherburne, Wright	48 min
Jun 24, 8:19 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Renville	3 hr
Jun 24, 8:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Chippewa	41 min
Jun 24, 8:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Redwood, Yellow Medicine	38 min
Jun 24, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chisago	46 min
Jun 24, 8:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Lac qui Parle	35 min
Jun 24, 8:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	McLeod, Meeker, Renville	49 min
Jun 24, 8:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Chisago	47 min
Jun 24, 8:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Hennepin, Wright	31 min
Jun 24, 9:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Swift	43 min
Jun 24, 9:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	McLeod, Meeker, Renville	29 min
Jun 24, 9:34 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Chisago	116 min
Jun 24, 9:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Hennepin	24 min
Jun 24, 9:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	McLeod, Renville	33 min
Jun 24, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	McLeod	31 min
Jun 24, 10:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Hennepin	33 min
Jun 24, 11:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Anoka, Benton, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago, Dakota and 15 more	4 hr
Jun 24, 11:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Anoka, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Washington	49 min
Jun 25, 12:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Martin, Watonwan	33 min
Jun 25, 12:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi, McLeod, Meeker, Renville, Sibley	44 min
Jun 25, 1:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Stearns, Wright	34 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.