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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 566

June 23, 200327 counties in Minnesota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 23, 2003, 1:05 PM CDT for 27 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 23, 2003, 1:05 PM CDT (18:05 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 2003, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 27 counties

Aitkin County, MN, Benton County, MN, Carlton County, MN, Carver County, MN, Cass County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Itasca County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Pope County, MN, Saint Louis County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Todd County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Wright County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:04 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.

Warnings issued inside it

12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 1:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXDouglas49 min
Jun 23, 1:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXPope40 min
Jun 23, 1:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXTodd41 min
Jun 23, 2:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHCass65 min
Jun 23, 2:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHCrow Wing61 min
Jun 23, 3:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXKandiyohi33 min
Jun 23, 3:40 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXKandiyohi35 min
Jun 23, 4:07 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMPXKandiyohi, Stearns113 min
Jun 23, 4:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMeeker, Stearns63 min
Jun 23, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXMeeker30 min
Jun 23, 5:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXKandiyohi, Meeker28 min
Jun 23, 5:33 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMPXDouglas, Todd2 hr

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 155 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 12:00Z on 2003-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 627 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 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 12:00Z on 2003-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 68 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 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
627 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
795 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 8:05 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBig Stone, Chippewa, Douglas, Grant, Lac qui Parle, Otter Tail and 4 more55 min
Jun 23, 10:16 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBig Stone, Cass, Chippewa, Crow Wing, Douglas, Grant and 11 more119 min
Jun 23, 2:43 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnoka, Benton, Isanti, Kandiyohi, McLeod, Meeker and 6 more2 hr
Jun 23, 6:24 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBig Stone, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln and 10 more66 min
Jun 23, 6:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBrown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle and 15 more4 hr

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.