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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 21, 2007Brown County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 2007, 7:12 PM CDT for Brown County, Minnesota. It was in force for 33 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 21, 2007, 7:12 PM CDT (00:12 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 2007, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Brown County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 21, 11:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 97 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 00:00Z on 2007-06-22Temperature 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, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 2007-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1308 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 220012
SVRMPX
MNC015-220045-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0196.070622T0012Z-070622T0045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
712 PM CDT THU JUN 21 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BROWN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 707 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...   
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BASE BALL SIZE HAIL AND 65 MPH WINDS.  THIS   
  STORM WAS LOCATED OVER EXTREME EAST CENTRAL BROWN COUNTY...OR      
  ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NEW ULM...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25    
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE IMPACT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
  THE INDICATED COUNTY

DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED SOME WEAK ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM.
WHILE NOT IMMEDIATELY LIKELY...A TORNADO MAY STILL DEVELOP. IF A
TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A
STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.

LAT...LON 4426 9449 4412 9449 4412 9437 4426 9438
      4430 9444

$$
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS53 KMPX 220036
SVSMPX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
736 PM CDT THU JUN 21 2007

MNC015-220046-
/O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0196.000000T0000Z-070622T0045Z/
BROWN MN-
736 PM CDT THU JUN 21 2007

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR BROWN COUNTY EXPIRES AT 745 PM
CDT...

SEVERE STORMS WERE ABOUT TO MOVE OUT OF BROWN COUNTY. HOWEVER...MORE 
THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN THE AREA...REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE
ADDITIONAL WARNINGS.

RELAY ANY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT 
FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 4426 9449 4412 9449 4412 9437 4426 9438
      4430 9444

$$

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2007Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007

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.