Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 583

June 24, 200324 counties in Minnesota; 11 counties in Wisconsin

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 24, 2003, 5:00 PM CDT for 24 counties in Minnesota; 11 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 24, 2003, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2003, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 35 counties

Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Carver County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Dodge County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Martin County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Olmsted County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Renville County, MN, Rice County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Steele County, MN, Wabasha County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Washington County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Winona County, MN, Buffalo County, WI, Chippewa County, WI, Clark County, WI, Dunn County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI, Jackson County, WI, Pepin County, WI, Pierce County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI, Taylor County, WI, Trempealeau County, WI

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:04 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 6:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	McLeod, Renville, Sibley	42 min
Jun 24, 6:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Hennepin	35 min
Jun 24, 7:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	McLeod, Renville, Sibley	48 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, 8:19 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Renville	3 hr
Jun 24, 8:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	McLeod, Meeker, Renville	49 min
Jun 24, 8:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Hennepin, Wright	31 min
Jun 24, 9:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	McLeod, Meeker, Renville	29 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

Discussions around it

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

Mesoscale Discussion 1497Jun 24, 7:09 PM CDT

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 45 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, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Big Stone, Carlton, Chippewa and 21 more	6 hr
Jun 24, 5:59 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock	61 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 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.