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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Twin Cities, MN

July 2, 2003Morrison County, Todd County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 2, 2003, 10:40 PM CDT for Morrison County, Todd County, Minnesota. It was in force for 35 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: Jul 2, 2003, 10:40 PM CDT (03:40 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 2003, 11:15 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Morrison County, MN, Todd County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 176 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:41 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
Jul 2, 7:25 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 174 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: 1209 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -146 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1701 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 198 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.6

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The text

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

097 
WFUS53 KMPX 030340
TORMPX
MNC097-153-030415-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1039 PM CDT WED JUL 2 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN TODD COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  MORRISON COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 1115 PM CDT

* AT 1039 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MOTLEY...OR ABOUT 22 MILES NORTHEAST
  OF LONG PRAIRIE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MOTLEY.
  LINCOLN.
  CUSHING.

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

LAT...LON 4634 9466 4617 9481 4611 9424 4639 9438

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 2, 10:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Douglas, Todd	61 min
Jul 2, 10:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Douglas, Pope	42 min
Jul 2, 11:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Stevens	49 min
Jul 2, 11:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Benton, Morrison, Stearns, Todd	55 min
Jul 2, 11:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Pope	42 min
Jul 2, 11:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Sherburne	43 min
Jul 3, 12:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Wright	37 min
Jul 3, 12:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Anoka, Hennepin, Sherburne	58 min
Jul 3, 12:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Isanti	40 min
Jul 3, 12:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chisago	49 min

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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.