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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 24, 2003McLeod County, Renville County, Sibley County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 2003, 6:33 PM CDT for McLeod County, Renville County, Sibley County, Minnesota. It was in force for 42 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, 6:33 PM CDT (23:33 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2003, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties McLeod County, MN, Renville County, MN, Sibley County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:34 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.

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, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 79 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KMPX 242333
TORMPX
MNC085-129-143-250015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
633 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MCLEOD COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  RENVILLE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  SIBLEY COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 633 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO 4 MILES NORTH OF FAIRFAX...OR ABOUT 18 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  OLIVIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  BROWNTON.
  BUFFALO LAKE.
  FAIRFAX.
  GIBBON.
  HUTCHINSON.
  STEWART.
  WINTHROP.

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

LAT...LON 4461 9489 4448 9471 4451 9423 4488 9430
          4495 9437

$$
 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, 6:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Yellow Medicine	33 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.