Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 27, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Aug 9, 1999, 7:37 PM CDT for Rice County, Steele County, Minnesota. It was in force for 38 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 1999, 7:37 PM CDT (00:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 1999, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Rice County, MN, Steele County, MN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 7:37 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Morristown, MN | Multiple vortex tornado crossed open fields. Continuation of tornado from Le Sueur County. |
| Aug 9, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Morristown, MN | Trees down in Camp Omega. Continuation of tornado from Le Sueur County. |
| Aug 9, 7:46 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Morristown, MN | Few trees felled. Tornado cut swath through bean field. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 1808 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 733 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 291 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 301 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.4
- Supercell composite
- 13.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMSP 100038 RRA TORMSP MNC131-147-100115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 737 PM CDT MON AUG 9 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RICE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA STEELE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 733 PM CDT...SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 2 MILES WEST OF MORRISTOWN...ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FARIBAULT. A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS ALSO 5 TO 10 MILES EAST OF FARIBAULT...OR JUST WEST OF NERSTRAND. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH... AND OTHER STORMS WERE ALSO DEVELOPING QUICKLY. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTEDd MORRISTOWN NERSTRAND AREAS SOUTH AND EAST OF FARIBAULT MEDFORD OWATONNA GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! TDK &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 7:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 42 min |
| Aug 9, 7:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Rice | 33 min |
| Aug 9, 7:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Le Sueur | 31 min |
| Aug 9, 7:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 33 min |
| Aug 9, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Steele | 31 min |
| Aug 9, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 31 min |
| Aug 9, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn | 57 min |
| Aug 9, 8:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 39 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.