Tornado Warning 16, NWS Twin Cities, MN

Issued

May 9, 2001, 8:44 PM CDT (01:44 UTC)

Expired

May 9, 2001, 9:15 PM CDT

In force

31 min

Issued by

NWS Twin Cities, MN

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Goodhue County, MN

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

000 
WFUS53 KMPX 100147
TORMSP
MNC049-100215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
844 PM CDT WED MAY 9 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN GOODHUE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT

* AT 844 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER GOODHUE COUNTY...OR
  ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTH OF RED WING...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...
  BELLECHESTER 
  MAZEPPA
  PINE ISLAND

GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR

LAT...LON 4449 9272 4436 9255 4439 9235 4456 9251

NWS Twin Cities, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at May 9, 3:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 44 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
300 PM CDT WED MAY 9 2001

THE PROBLEM CONTINUES TO BE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT AND SEVERE
POTENTIAL.  MID AND HIGH LEVEL MOISTURE HAS RETARDED HEATING IN
CENTRAL AND ERN PORTIONS OF THE AREA.  A WARM FRONT EXTENDED ACROSS
SW MN AND APPEARS TO BE THE FOCUS FOR DEVELOPMENT.  HOWEVER A  CAP
EXISTS WITH VERY WARM 850 TEMPERATURES.  SHEAR AND INSTABILITY ARE
STILL IN PLACE TO FAVOR AT LEAST SEVERE STORMS.  WITH THE
APPROACHING SHORT WAVE TROF...NOW OVER ERN SD...THERE IS ENOUGH
GOING ON TO MENTION SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH A SEVERE POTENTIAL
FOR ANY DEVELOPMENT.

MODELS DIFFER ON ORGANIZATION OF THE FRONT AFTER IT MOVES THROUGH
THE AREA...BUT BOUNDARY SEEMS TO REMAIN IN VICINITY OF NRN IA AND
CENTRAL WI.  WITH COLD AIR ALOFT AND NWRLY FLOW PLUS THE AVAILABLE
MOISTURE...SOME MENTION OF SHOWERS IS WARRANTED THURSDAY AND
THURSDAY NIGHT.  THE EXTENDED WILL CONTINUE DRY WITH CLOUDINESS AND
COOL TEMPERATURES.  THE LATEST AVN DEVELOPS WARM ADVECTION CLOUDS IN
THE MID LEVELS...BUT DOES NOT DEVELOP ANY PRECIPITATION.  A STRONG
ENOUGH WAVE IN THE WESTERLIES IS ENOUGH TO MENTION STHOWERS MONDAY
AND TUESDAY.

.MSP...NONE.
 SCOTT

In the hours before

MNZ057-058-065-073-074-082-091-100215-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
811 PM CDT WED MAY 9 2001

...PART OF TORNADO WATCH CANCELLED....

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CANCELLED PART OF THE TORNADO
WATCH THAT WAS IN AFFECT UNTIL 10 PM. THE WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED
FOR AREAS OF SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA WEST OF A LINE FROM NEAR
LITCHFIELD...TO NEW ULM...TO FAIRMONT. THE TORNADO WATCH DOES REMAIN
IN AFFECT FOR AREAS OF SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA TO THE EAST OF THIS
LINE.

JPR

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