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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 582

June 24, 200327 counties in Minnesota; Deuel County, Grant County, Roberts County, South Dakota; Burnett County, Douglas County, Polk County, Wisconsin

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 24, 2003, 4:20 PM CDT for 27 counties in Minnesota; Deuel County, Grant County, Roberts County, South Dakota; Burnett County, Douglas County, Polk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 24, 2003, 4:20 PM CDT (21:20 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2003, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 33 counties

Aitkin County, MN, Anoka County, MN, Benton County, MN, Big Stone County, MN, Carlton County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Chisago County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Grant County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pine County, MN, Pope County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Todd County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Wright County, MN, Deuel County, SD, Grant County, SD, Roberts County, SD, Burnett County, WI, Douglas County, WI, Polk County, WI

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Morrison, Stearns, Todd	43 min
Jun 24, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Pope	34 min
Jun 24, 5:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Pope	26 min
Jun 24, 5:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Pope, Stearns	31 min
Jun 24, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Morrison, Stearns, Todd	49 min
Jun 24, 6:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Stearns, Todd	36 min
Jun 24, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Aitkin, Carlton, Saint Louis	64 min
Jun 24, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Pope	38 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, 7:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Stearns	32 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, 8:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Marshall, Roberts	35 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, 8:29 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, 8:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Burnett	61 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

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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1284 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 8:08 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blue Earth, Dodge, Faribault, Freeborn, Le Sueur, Mower and 3 more	67 min
Jun 23, 9:10 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle and 16 more	65 min
Jun 23, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Lyon, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock	6 hr
Jun 24, 12:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Dakota, Dodge and 21 more	5 hr
Jun 24, 1:21 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Big Stone, Lac qui Parle, Stevens, Yellow Medicine	114 min
Jun 24, 2:44 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock	2 hr
Jun 24, 3:09 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Dodge, Freeborn, Goodhue and 13 more	96 min
Jun 24, 2:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Redwood and 2 more	8 hr
Jun 24, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault and 18 more	5 hr
Jun 24, 5:59 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock	61 min
Jun 23, 10:38 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Union	67 min
Jun 23, 10:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Union	5 hr
Jun 24, 1:29 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bon Homme, Charles Mix, Clay, Douglas, Gregory, Hutchinson and 2 more	3 hr
Jun 24, 6:28 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beadle, Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Clark, Day and 18 more	92 min
Jun 24, 9:32 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ashland, Iron	2 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, 2003 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Dakota, 2003 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Wisconsin, 2003 Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2003

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.