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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 369, NWS Twin Cities, MN

September 20, 2007Isanti County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 20, 2007, 3:13 PM CDT for Isanti County, Minnesota. It was in force for 16 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
Sep 20, 2007, 3:13 PM CDT (20:13 UTC)
Expired
Sep 20, 2007, 3:29 PM CDT
In force
16 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Isanti County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 92 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 2007-09-20Temperature 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°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2007-09-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 215 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
1024 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
215 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
291 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 202014
SVRMPX
MNC059-202115-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0369.070920T2013Z-070920T2115Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
313 PM CDT THU SEP 20 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ISANTI COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...

* UNTIL 415 PM CDT

* AT 311 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE           
  THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.    
  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 13 MILES     
  NORTHWEST OF CAMBRIDGE TO 12 MILES WEST OF CAMBRIDGE...AND         
  MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  CAMBRIDGE...

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 4573 9314 4556 9314 4549 9352 4573 9351
TIME...MOT...LOC 2013Z 264DEG 52KT 4573 9332 4558 9344

$$
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS53 KMPX 202029
SVSMPX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
330 PM CDT THU SEP 20 2007

MNC059-202040-
/O.CAN.KMPX.SV.W.0369.000000T0000Z-070920T2115Z/
ISANTI MN-
330 PM CDT THU SEP 20 2007

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

RADAR INDICATED THAT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAD MOVED OUT OF THE
WARNED AREA. THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 4573 9314 4556 9314 4549 9352 4573 9351
TIME...MOT...LOC 2030Z 264DEG 52KT 4575 9297 4560 9309

$$

LS/MDB

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 20, 7:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXLac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine42 min
Sep 20, 8:11 AM CDTTornado WarningMPXLac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine34 min
Sep 20, 8:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXLac qui Parle39 min
Sep 20, 8:43 AM CDTTornado WarningMPXLac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine47 min
Sep 20, 9:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXChippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift61 min
Sep 20, 10:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXSwift31 min
Sep 20, 10:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXChippewa, Swift47 min
Sep 20, 10:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXSwift46 min
Sep 20, 10:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXChippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift44 min
Sep 20, 11:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXKandiyohi, Pope, Stearns, Swift59 min
Sep 20, 12:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXChippewa, Kandiyohi38 min
Sep 20, 12:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXDouglas, Pope64 min
Sep 20, 1:04 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchMPXAnoka, Benton, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago, Dakota and 23 more18 hr
Sep 20, 1:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMeeker, Stearns, Wright27 min
Sep 20, 1:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMorrison, Stearns, Todd61 min
Sep 20, 1:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBenton, Mille Lacs, Morrison54 min
Sep 20, 2:01 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMPXBenton, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Pope, Stearns, Todd6 hr
Sep 20, 2:20 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXBenton, Sherburne, Stearns25 min
Sep 20, 2:42 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXBenton, Sherburne33 min
Sep 20, 2:44 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXChippewa, Kandiyohi, Renville46 min
Sep 20, 2:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBenton, Morrison58 min
Sep 20, 2:57 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXBenton, Mille Lacs, Sherburne33 min
Sep 20, 3:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXKanabec, Mille Lacs, Morrison63 min
Sep 20, 3:28 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXKandiyohi, Meeker47 min
Sep 20, 3:54 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXKanabec, Mille Lacs35 min
Sep 20, 4:11 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXKanabec, Mille Lacs25 min
Sep 20, 4:13 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXKandiyohi, Meeker47 min
Sep 20, 4:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXWright63 min
Sep 20, 5:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXCarver, Hennepin53 min
Sep 20, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXAnoka, Dakota, Ramsey, Scott60 min
Sep 20, 5:47 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXHennepin, Scott31 min
Sep 20, 6:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXHennepin29 min
Sep 20, 6:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXWashington53 min
Sep 20, 6:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXSherburne, Wright34 min
Sep 20, 6:14 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXDakota, Washington31 min
Sep 20, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXAnoka, Hennepin60 min
Sep 20, 6:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXWright39 min

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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.