Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 203, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2007, 2:51 PM CDT for Douglas County, Todd County, Minnesota. It was in force for 39 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
- Jul 3, 2007, 2:51 PM CDT (19:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2007, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Douglas County, MN, Todd County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 165 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:53 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 2:55 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 2 N Osakis, MN | |
| Jul 3, 3:30 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 3 N Sauk Centre, MN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 1198 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 975 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 031951 SVRMPX MNC041-153-032030- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0203.070703T1951Z-070703T2030Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 251 PM CDT TUE JUL 3 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... TODD COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA... EASTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 330 PM CDT * AT 249 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 2 MILES NORTH OF OSAKIS...OR ABOUT 11 MILES EAST OF ALEXANDRIA...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... WEST UNION... LITTLE SAUK... STAY INDOORS...AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4597 9517 4588 9523 4577 9512 4578 9475 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 032026 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 325 PM CDT TUE JUL 3 2007 MNC041-153-032035- /O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0203.000000T0000Z-070703T2030Z/ TODD MN-DOUGLAS MN- 325 PM CDT TUE JUL 3 2007 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN DOUGLAS AND TODD COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 330 PM CDT... SEVERE STORMS WERE ABOUT TO MOVE OUT OF THE COUNTY. HOWEVER...MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN THE AREA...REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE ADDITIONAL WARNINGS. REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 4597 9517 4588 9523 4577 9512 4578 9475 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 11:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker, Stearns | 49 min |
| Jul 3, 12:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sherburne, Stearns, Wright | 44 min |
| Jul 3, 1:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Todd | 51 min |
| Jul 3, 2:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Rice | 27 min |
| Jul 3, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago | 45 min |
| Jul 3, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 39 min |
| Jul 3, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 45 min |
| Jul 3, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Rice, Scott | 42 min |
| Jul 3, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wright | 62 min |
| Jul 3, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue, Rice | 64 min |
| Jul 3, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Steele, Waseca | 54 min |
| Jul 3, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth | 44 min |
| Jul 3, 6:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn | 32 min |
| Jul 3, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Steele, Waseca | 63 min |
| Jul 3, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 53 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.