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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 22, 2003Meeker County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 22, 2003, 11:21 PM CDT for Meeker County, Minnesota. It was in force for 24 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 22, 2003, 11:21 PM CDT (04:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2003, 11:45 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Meeker County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:23 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 nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 81 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: 1597 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1108 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 217 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 5.8

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KMPX 230421
TORMPX
MNC093-230445-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1121 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MEEKER COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 1145 PM CDT

* AT 1121 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF LITCHFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25
  MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  KINGSTON.
  LITCHFIELD.
  FOREST CITY.
  WATKINS.

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

LAT...LON 4506 9465 4518 9428 4530 9441 4532 9457

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Pope	37 min
Jun 22, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Mille Lacs	35 min
Jun 22, 10:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Meeker	41 min
Jun 22, 11:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Meeker	22 min
Jun 23, 4:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Le Sueur	48 min
Jun 23, 7:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Redwood	42 min
Jun 23, 1:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Douglas	49 min
Jun 23, 1:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Pope	40 min
Jun 23, 1:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Todd	41 min
Jun 23, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi	33 min
Jun 23, 3:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi	35 min
Jun 23, 4:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi, Stearns	113 min
Jun 23, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Meeker, Stearns	63 min
Jun 23, 4:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Meeker	30 min
Jun 23, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Renville	24 min
Jun 23, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Renville	14 min
Jun 23, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi, Meeker	28 min
Jun 23, 5:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Renville	31 min
Jun 23, 5:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Douglas, Todd	2 hr
Jun 23, 6:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Renville	37 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.