Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 764
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 19, 2003, 2:40 PM CDT for 30 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 19, 2003, 2:40 PM CDT (19:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2003, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 30 counties
Aitkin County, MN, Anoka County, MN, Becker County, MN, Benton County, MN, Carlton County, MN, Carver County, MN, Cass County, MN, Chisago County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Grant County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pine County, MN, Pope County, MN, Ramsey 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), 184 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 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
19 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison, Todd | 61 min |
| Jul 19, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Wadena | 12 min |
| Jul 19, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cass | 25 min |
| Jul 19, 3:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Todd | 33 min |
| Jul 19, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 62 min |
| Jul 19, 4:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Morrison | 25 min |
| Jul 19, 4:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Morrison | 54 min |
| Jul 19, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Todd | 52 min |
| Jul 19, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 54 min |
| Jul 19, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 34 min |
| Jul 19, 5:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Stearns | 43 min |
| Jul 19, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Todd | 49 min |
| Jul 19, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 43 min |
| Jul 19, 5:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Stearns | 36 min |
| Jul 19, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker | 60 min |
| Jul 19, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker | 59 min |
| Jul 19, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker | 30 min |
| Jul 19, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker, Renville | 47 min |
| Jul 19, 7:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Meeker, Renville | 41 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 183 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1684 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 12:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Carlton, Cass, Chisago, Clearwater and 8 more | 89 min |
| Jul 19, 5:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Carlton and 41 more | 90 min |
| Jul 19, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beltrami, Clearwater, Itasca, Kittson, Koochiching, Lake of the Woods and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 19, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Douglas, Faribault, Freeborn, Grant and 12 more | 5 hr |
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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.