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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 15, 2007Stearns County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2007, 5:40 PM CDT for Stearns County, Minnesota. It was in force for 36 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 15, 2007, 5:40 PM CDT (22:40 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2007, 6:16 PM CDT
In force
36 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), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 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 nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 142 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 2007-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 2007-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -95 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1859 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 152240
SVRMPX
MNC145-152330-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0111.070615T2240Z-070615T2330Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
540 PM CDT FRI JUN 15 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  STEARNS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA...

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 539 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 9
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF SAUK CENTRE...OR ABOUT 14 MILES EAST OF
  GLENWOOD...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SAUK CENTRE...

STAY INDOORS...AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 4574 9512 4560 9513 4565 9468 4577 9469

$$
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS53 KMPX 152316
SVSMPX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
616 PM CDT FRI JUN 15 2007

MNC145-152326-
/O.CAN.KMPX.SV.W.0111.000000T0000Z-070615T2330Z/
STEARNS MN-
616 PM CDT FRI JUN 15 2007

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR STEARNS COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM HAD WEAKENED TO BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. 
THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 4574 9512 4560 9513 4565 9468 4577 9469

$$

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.