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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 7, 2007Pope County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2007, 3:21 PM CDT for Pope County, Minnesota. It was in force for 24 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 7, 2007, 3:21 PM CDT (20:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2007, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pope County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 174 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:22 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 7, 11:11 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 171 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 72 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -470 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1082 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 072021
SVRMPX
MNC121-072045-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0072.070607T2021Z-070607T2045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
321 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  POPE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...

* UNTIL 345 PM CDT

* AT 318 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
  OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  STARBUCK...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTH OF BENSON...AND MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 40 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  STARBUCK...
  GLENWOOD...

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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA.

LAT...LON 4556 9574 4542 9573 4547 9515 4575 9536

$$

KAT

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KMPX 072042
SVSMPX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
342 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2007

MNC121-072052-
/O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0072.000000T0000Z-070607T2045Z/
POPE MN-
342 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2007

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR POPE COUNTY EXPIRES AT 345 PM
CDT...

THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING FOR POPE COUNTY HAS 
DECREASED IN INTENSITY...BUT REMAINS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN 
AND PEA SIZED HAIL. 

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING 
FOR WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA.

LAT...LON 4556 9574 4542 9573 4547 9515 4575 9536

$$

KAT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 1:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Brown, Redwood, Watonwan	43 min
Jun 7, 2:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Brown, Nicollet, Sibley	51 min
Jun 7, 2:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Le Sueur, Rice	49 min
Jun 7, 2:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	McLeod	24 min
Jun 7, 2:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota, Rice, Scott	32 min
Jun 7, 2:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver, McLeod, Wright	35 min
Jun 7, 3:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota, Ramsey, Washington	25 min
Jun 7, 3:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Washington	34 min
Jun 7, 4:14 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	MPX	Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Dakota and 27 more	17 hr
Jun 7, 11:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Goodhue	57 min
Jun 7, 11:45 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Goodhue	45 min
Jun 7, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Redwood, Renville	50 min
Jun 7, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Meeker, Wright	46 min
Jun 7, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Hennepin	33 min
Jun 7, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Anoka, Isanti, Sherburne	49 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.