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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Twin Cities, MN

May 27, 2002Steele County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2002, 5:13 PM CDT for Steele County, Minnesota. It was in force for 17 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 27, 2002, 5:13 PM CDT (22:13 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 2002, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
17 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Steele County, MN

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 27, 5:25 PM CDTHail 0.75Hayfield, MN
May 27, 5:26 PM CDTHail 1Blooming Prairie, 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 116 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2002-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 38 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2002-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 42 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
38 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-111 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1138 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KMPX 272213
TORMSP
MNC147-272230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
513 PM CDT MON MAY 27 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EXTREME SOUTHEAST STEELE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 513 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER BLOOMING
  PRAIRIE...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH OF AUSTIN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
  10 MPH.

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

THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WHICH
WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA.

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

LAT...LON 4393 9306 4386 9316 4384 9304 4385 9294

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 3:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXSteele38 min
May 27, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXSteele48 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.