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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 10, 2007Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2007, 8:15 PM CDT for Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. It was in force for 45 min. 3 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 10, 2007, 8:15 PM CDT (01:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 2007, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Yellow Medicine County, MN

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 10, 8:15 PM CDTTSTM WND GST 66Hanley Falls, MNGUST INCREASED TO 66 MPH PER MNDOT SENSOR ALONG HIGHWAY 23.
Jun 10, 8:35 PM CDTHAIL 0.882 S Wood Lake, MN
Jun 10, 8:35 PM CDTHAIL 1Wood Lake, MN

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

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 10, 2:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 155 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 2007-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 114 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2007-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
114 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-98 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2096 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
6 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 110115
SVRMPX
MNC173-110200-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0098.070611T0115Z-070611T0200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
815 PM CDT SUN JUN 10 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 812 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...   
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE SIZE HAIL AND 65 MPH WINDS.    
  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF WOOD LAKE...OR ABOUT   
  9 MILES SOUTH OF GRANITE FALLS...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  WOOD LAKE...

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 4484 9570 4462 9562 4457 9538 4469 9537

$$

JPR
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS53 KMPX 110159
SVSMPX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
857 PM CDT SUN JUN 10 2007

MNC173-110207-
/O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0098.000000T0000Z-070611T0200Z/
YELLOW MEDICINE MN-
857 PM CDT SUN JUN 10 2007

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN YELLOW MEDICINE 
COUNTY EXPIRES AT 900 PM CDT...

SEVERE STORMS WERE ABOUT TO MOVE OUT OF THE COUNTY...AND HAVE ALSO 
WEAKENED. ADDITIONAL WARNINGS ARE NOT ANTICIPATED. 

LAT...LON 4484 9570 4462 9562 4457 9538 4469 9537

$$

JPR

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 7:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMille Lacs44 min
Jun 10, 7:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXChippewa, Yellow Medicine55 min
Jun 10, 7:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXKandiyohi, Meeker, Renville59 min
Jun 10, 8:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRedwood67 min
Jun 10, 8:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRenville60 min
Jun 10, 9:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXChippewa, Kandiyohi61 min
Jun 10, 9:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXStevens, Swift55 min
Jun 10, 11:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXStevens36 min
Jun 10, 11:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXStevens33 min
Jun 11, 12:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRedwood38 min
Jun 11, 12:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXDouglas53 min
Jun 11, 12:40 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMPXRedwood2 hr
Jun 11, 1:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMPXBrown2 hr
Jun 11, 1:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXDouglas31 min
Jun 11, 2:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRenville21 min
Jun 11, 2:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXKandiyohi11 min
Jun 11, 2:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXStearns32 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.