Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2013
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 2013, 3:33 AM CDT for 4 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 57 min. 6 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 21, 2013, 3:33 AM CDT (08:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2013, 4:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Dakota County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Scott County, MN, Washington County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:33 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 3:40 AM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 5 Sw St Paul, MN | MANY TREES AND BRANCHES DOWN IN YARDS AND STREETS. |
| Jun 21, 3:50 AM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 5 Sw St Paul, MN | MANY TREES AND BRANCHES DOWN IN YARDS AND STREETS. |
| Jun 21, 3:50 AM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | St Paul, MN | |
| Jun 21, 4:01 AM CDT | HAIL 0.5 | Burnsville, MN | |
| Jun 21, 4:05 AM CDT | TSTM WND GST 55 | 5 Ssw Stillwater, MN | MEASURED AT LAKE ELMO AIRPORT |
| Jun 21, 4:11 AM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Eagan, 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 36 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
- 84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -114 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2297 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
721
WUUS53 KMPX 210833
SVRMPX
MNC037-123-139-163-210930-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0071.130621T0833Z-130621T0930Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
333 AM CDT FRI JUN 21 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
DAKOTA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
RAMSEY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
SCOTT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 430 AM CDT
* AT 328 AM CDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EAST BETHEL TO MAPLE GROVE TO
EDEN PRAIRIE TO 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GLENCOE...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 45 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BURNSVILLE...ST PAUL...FOREST LAKE...ROSEVILLE...EAGAN...
LAKEVILLE...MAPLEWOOD...NEW PRAGUE...STILLWATER...SHAKOPEE...
MARYSTOWN...MOUNDS VIEW...JORDAN...BELLE PLAINE...NEW BRIGHTON...
SAVAGE...PRIOR LAKE...ARDEN HILLS...SHOREVIEW AND LAUDERDALE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION. THESE STORMS ARE PRODUCING WIDESPREAD
WIND DAMAGE. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
&&
LAT...LON 4455 9329 4456 9390 4462 9385 4471 9362
4479 9358 4479 9334 4485 9320 4512 9323
4513 9302 4530 9301 4529 9276 4511 9274
4505 9280 4492 9275 4475 9280 4472 9275
4454 9280 4452 9303 4447 9304 4447 9328
TIME...MOT...LOC 0833Z 301DEG 40KT 4527 9322 4507 9342
4482 9349 4466 9395
HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
BRB1 follow-up statement
633
WWUS53 KMPX 210928
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
428 AM CDT FRI JUN 21 2013
MNC037-123-139-163-210938-
/O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0071.000000T0000Z-130621T0930Z/
DAKOTA MN-RAMSEY MN-SCOTT MN-WASHINGTON MN-
428 AM CDT FRI JUN 21 2013
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WASHINGTON...SCOTT...RAMSEY
AND DAKOTA COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 430 AM CDT...
THE LINE OF STORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE
WARNED AREA.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM.
LAT...LON 4455 9329 4456 9390 4462 9385 4471 9362
4479 9358 4479 9334 4485 9320 4512 9323
4513 9302 4530 9301 4529 9276 4511 9274
4505 9280 4492 9275 4475 9280 4472 9275
4454 9280 4452 9303 4447 9304 4447 9328
TIME...MOT...LOC 0928Z 305DEG 42KT 4477 9241 4461 9274
4451 9317
$$
BRBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 8:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Douglas | 42 min |
| Jun 20, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope, Stearns, Todd | 66 min |
| Jun 20, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stevens | 61 min |
| Jun 20, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Todd | 25 min |
| Jun 20, 10:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MPX | Benton, Chippewa, Douglas, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Meeker and 7 more | 9 hr |
| Jun 20, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine | 64 min |
| Jun 20, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope | 54 min |
| Jun 20, 11:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Pope, Stevens | 6 hr |
| Jun 21, 12:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope | 64 min |
| Jun 21, 12:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Morrison | 47 min |
| Jun 21, 12:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Pope | 6 hr |
| Jun 21, 12:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Stevens | 55 min |
| Jun 21, 12:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Stevens | 5 hr |
| Jun 21, 12:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle, Pope, Stevens, Swift | 64 min |
| Jun 21, 12:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope, Stearns, Todd | 5 hr |
| Jun 21, 1:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Pope | 29 min |
| Jun 21, 1:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Stearns, Swift | 53 min |
| Jun 21, 1:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Pope, Stearns | 5 hr |
| Jun 21, 1:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine | 53 min |
| Jun 21, 2:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, McLeod, Meeker, Renville, Stearns, Wright | 67 min |
| Jun 21, 2:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Sherburne, Stearns, Wright | 67 min |
| Jun 21, 2:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi | 45 min |
| Jun 21, 2:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Hennepin, McLeod, Wright | 64 min |
| Jun 21, 3:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Sherburne | 56 min |
| Jun 21, 3:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, McLeod, Nicollet, Redwood, Renville, Sibley | 61 min |
| Jun 21, 4:07 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Rice, Steele, Waseca, Watonwan | 53 min |
| Jun 21, 4:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue, Rice | 65 min |
| Jun 21, 6:03 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope, Stearns, Stevens, Todd | 6 hr |
| Jun 21, 6:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Freeborn, Martin, Waseca | 4 hr |
| Jun 21, 6:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn | 4 hr |
| Jun 21, 7:58 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Faribault | 32 min |
| Jun 21, 8:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Martin | 38 min |
| Jun 21, 10:54 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MPX | Todd | 6 days |
| Jun 21, 3:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 36 more | 15 hr |
| Jun 21, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine | 59 min |
| Jun 21, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle | 13 min |
| Jun 21, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine | 62 min |
| Jun 21, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Swift | 55 min |
| Jun 21, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood, Renville, Yellow Medicine | 59 min |
| Jun 21, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope, Stevens | 66 min |
| Jun 21, 5:20 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MPX | Douglas, Pope, Stearns, Stevens, Todd | 6 hr |
| Jun 21, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Swift | 57 min |
| Jun 21, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker, Stearns | 52 min |
| Jun 21, 5:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Pope, Stevens | 6 hr |
| Jun 21, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood, Renville, Yellow Medicine | 63 min |
| Jun 21, 6:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Morrison | 68 min |
| Jun 21, 6:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | McLeod | 43 min |
| Jun 21, 6:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Anoka, Carver, Chisago, Hennepin, Isanti, Ramsey and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 21, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker, Stearns | 49 min |
| Jun 21, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, McLeod, Wright | 38 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.