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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Twin Cities, MN

May 8, 2002Goodhue County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2002, 5:24 PM CDT for Goodhue County, Minnesota. It was in force for 36 min. 2 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: May 8, 2002, 5:24 PM CDT (22:24 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2002, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Goodhue County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:28 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
May 8, 5:30 PM CDT	Hail 2.5	Goodhue, MN
May 8, 5:58 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Goodhue, MN

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 nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 91 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 565 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 401 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 393 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KMPX 082224
TORMSP
MNC049-082300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
524 PM CDT WED MAY 8 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 524 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 2 MILES NORTH
  OF ZUMBROTA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...
  BELLECHESTER.
  GOODHUE.
  ZUMBROTA.

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

LAT...LON 4435 9284 4422 9265 4447 9235 4458 9255

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 11:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Redwood	55 min
May 8, 12:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Brown, Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Redwood, Renville, Yellow Medicine	3 hr
May 8, 12:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Brown, Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Redwood, Renville, Yellow Medicine	3 hr
May 8, 2:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Nicollet	45 min
May 8, 2:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Waseca	42 min
May 8, 2:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Scott	36 min
May 8, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Le Sueur	31 min
May 8, 3:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota, Rice	41 min
May 8, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota, Goodhue, Rice	48 min
May 8, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Goodhue	47 min
May 8, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Goodhue	29 min
May 8, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver	30 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.