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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 5, 1999Freeborn County, Steele County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 1999, 10:05 PM CDT for Freeborn County, Steele County, Minnesota. It was in force for 25 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 5, 1999, 10:05 PM CDT (03:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 1999, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Freeborn County, MN, Steele County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:07 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.

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 5, 7:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Jun 5, 9:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 114 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: 1578 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -164 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1452 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 304 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMPX 060307 RRA
TORMSP
MNC047-147-060330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1005 PM CDT SAT JUN 5 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  FREEBORN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  STEELE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT

* AT 1005 PM CDT LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A     
TORNADO   NEAR HOLLANDALE...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF ALBERT 
LEA...  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...
  HOLLANDALE
  GENEVA
  BLOOMING PRAIRIE

IF YOU ARE IN A MULTIPLE STORY BUILDING...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM
AWAY ZFROM WINDOWS!

&

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Redwood, Renville, Yellow Medicine	47 min
Jun 5, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Faribault, Martin	53 min
Jun 5, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Freeborn, Steele, Waseca	42 min
Jun 5, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Goodhue	43 min
Jun 5, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	McLeod, Renville	49 min
Jun 5, 11:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi	29 min
Jun 6, 2:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Morrison	26 min
Jun 6, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Todd	31 min
Jun 6, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Morrison, Stearns	34 min
Jun 6, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Wright	27 min
Jun 6, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Faribault	28 min
Jun 6, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Le Sueur, Scott, Sibley	35 min
Jun 6, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver	35 min
Jun 6, 4:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Wright	26 min
Jun 6, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Sherburne	34 min
Jun 6, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Scott	24 min
Jun 6, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Martin, Watonwan	50 min
Jun 6, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Benton, Mille Lacs	47 min
Jun 6, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	McLeod, Wright	45 min
Jun 6, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Nicollet, Sibley	38 min
Jun 6, 5:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Benton, Sherburne, Stearns	28 min
Jun 6, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Anoka, Ramsey, Washington	43 min
Jun 6, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Goodhue	26 min
Jun 6, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Hennepin, McLeod, Sherburne, Wright	43 min
Jun 6, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Sibley	43 min
Jun 6, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Benton, Mille Lacs	43 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.