Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 693
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 26, 2011, 10:10 PM CDT for 36 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 26, 2011, 10:10 PM CDT (03:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2011, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 36 counties
Anoka County, MN, Benton County, MN, Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Carver County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Martin County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Pope County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Rice County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Steele County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Washington County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Wright County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:10 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 SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Douglas, Lac qui Parle, Pope, Stevens, Swift | 79 min |
| Jul 26, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Pope, Stearns, Swift | 61 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1713 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 7:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Grant, Stevens, Traverse, Wilkin | 36 min |
| Jul 26, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Chippewa, Douglas, Grant, Lac qui Parle, Otter Tail and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 26, 8:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Douglas, Grant, Lac qui Parle, Otter Tail, Pope and 4 more | 95 min |
| Jul 26, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 26, 9:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Dakota and 37 more | 67 min |
| Jul 27, 2:49 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Cottonwood and 29 more | 56 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.