Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2003

Tornado Warning 36, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 28, 2003Wright County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 28, 2003, 8:00 PM CDT for Wright County, Minnesota. It was in force for 30 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 28, 2003, 8:00 PM CDT (01:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 2003, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wright County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:02 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 59 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 00:00Z on 2003-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 170 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 00:00Z on 2003-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 112 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
170 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1346 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
205 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

854 
WFUS53 KMPX 290100
TORMPX
MNC171-290130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
800 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 800 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 15 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF MONTICELLO...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTH OF ST CLOUD...
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MONTICELLO.
  HASTY.
  ENFIELD.
  MAPLE LAKE.

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

LAT...LON 4540 9405 4531 9415 4516 9386 4529 9374

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 8:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXSherburne34 min
Jun 28, 8:31 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXWright14 min
Jun 28, 8:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXHennepin30 min
Jun 28, 8:50 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXHennepin25 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Minnesota, 2003Every tornado warning in 2003Tornadoes in 2003

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.