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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 2003, 6:27 PM CDT for Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. It was in force for 33 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 24, 2003, 6:27 PM CDT (23:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2003, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Yellow Medicine County, MN
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 24, 2:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1284 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
210 WFUS53 KMPX 242327 TORMPX MNC173-250000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 626 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 626 PM CDT... A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CLARKFIELD...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH OF MARSHALL... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... CLARKFIELD. HANLEY FALLS. HAZEL RUN. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR LAT...LON 4466 9608 4453 9589 4475 9548 4489 9568 $$ RJN/BAP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 31 min |
| Jun 23, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 42 min |
| Jun 24, 12:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Watonwan | 38 min |
| Jun 24, 2:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Scott | 38 min |
| Jun 24, 2:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Washington | 53 min |
| Jun 24, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stevens | 44 min |
| Jun 24, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope, Stevens | 47 min |
| Jun 24, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison, Stearns, Todd | 43 min |
| Jun 24, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope | 34 min |
| Jun 24, 5:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Pope | 26 min |
| Jun 24, 5:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Pope, Stearns | 31 min |
| Jun 24, 5:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 25 min |
| Jun 24, 5:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 40 min |
| Jun 24, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison, Stearns, Todd | 49 min |
| Jun 24, 6:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Stearns, Todd | 36 min |
| Jun 24, 6:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | McLeod, Renville, Sibley | 42 min |
| Jun 24, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 35 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.