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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 20, 2007Mille Lacs County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2007, 5:32 PM CDT for Mille Lacs County, Minnesota. It was in force for 43 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 20, 2007, 5:32 PM CDT (22:32 UTC)
Expired
Jun 20, 2007, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Mille Lacs County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 20, 5:48 PM CDTHAIL 1.75Princeton, MN
Jun 20, 5:52 PM CDTHAIL 1Princeton, MN

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 321 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, International Fa, MN at 12:00Z on 2007-06-20Temperature 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°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, International Fa, MN at 12:00Z on 2007-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 114 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1400 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
114 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
164 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 202232
SVRMPX
MNC095-202315-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0124.070620T2232Z-070620T2315Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
532 PM CDT WED JUN 20 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN MILLE LACS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 527 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...   
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND 65 MPH WINDS.   THIS  
  STORM WAS LOCATED 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MILACA...OR ABOUT 11       
  MILES NORTHEAST OF ST CLOUD...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MILACA...
  PRINCETON...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE
SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED.

LAT...LON 4578 9376 4557 9376 4556 9351 4577 9352

$$

KAT
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS53 KMPX 202241
SVSMPX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
540 PM CDT WED JUN 20 2007

MNC095-202315-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0124.000000T0000Z-070620T2315Z/
MILLE LACS MN-
540 PM CDT WED JUN 20 2007

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM CDT 
FOR SOUTHERN MILLE LACS COUNTY...

AT 536 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE 
THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BASEBALL SIZE HAIL AND 65 MPH 
WINDS.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PEASE...OR 
ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FOLEY...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE PRINCETON...PEASE...MILACA AND
FORESTON. THIS INCLUDES UNITED STATES HIGHWAY 169 BETWEEN PRINCETON 
AND MILACA.

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS AND LARGE
DAMAGING HAIL. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS

LAT...LON 4575 9376 4557 9376 4556 9351 4576 9352

$$

KAT

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 4:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXPope, Stearns54 min
Jun 20, 4:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXAnoka, Isanti32 min
Jun 20, 4:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXStearns53 min
Jun 20, 4:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXChisago34 min
Jun 20, 5:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBenton, Sherburne59 min
Jun 20, 5:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMeeker, Wright66 min
Jun 20, 5:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXIsanti53 min
Jun 20, 6:09 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXWright36 min
Jun 20, 6:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMille Lacs, Sherburne34 min
Jun 20, 6:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXCarver, McLeod59 min
Jun 20, 6:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXChisago54 min
Jun 20, 6:24 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXCarver51 min
Jun 20, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXHennepin62 min
Jun 20, 6:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXWright26 min
Jun 20, 6:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXScott63 min

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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.