Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 41, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 4, 2003, 2:09 AM CDT for Nicollet County, Minnesota. It was in force for 36 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 4, 2003, 2:09 AM CDT (07:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2003, 2:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Nicollet 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jul 4, 1:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 151 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -708 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1300 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
391
WFUS53 KMPX 040709
TORMPX
MNC103-040745-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
208 AM CDT FRI JUL 4 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NICOLLET COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 245 AM CDT
* AT 208 AM CDT... A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER
NICOLLET COUNTY...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF NEW ULM...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ST PETER
NICOLLET
GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
LAT...LON 4438 9454 4427 9434 4429 9418 4441 9398
4443 9457
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 11:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Stevens, Swift | 62 min |
| Jul 4, 12:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope | 42 min |
| Jul 4, 12:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Martin | 53 min |
| Jul 4, 12:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Stevens, Swift | 51 min |
| Jul 4, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Redwood, Watonwan | 60 min |
| Jul 4, 1:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope, Stearns, Todd | 50 min |
| Jul 4, 1:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Pope, Renville, Yellow Medicine | 59 min |
| Jul 4, 1:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Renville, Yellow Medicine | 57 min |
| Jul 4, 1:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Martin, Nicollet | 47 min |
| Jul 4, 1:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, McLeod, Sibley | 50 min |
| Jul 4, 2:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Redwood | 30 min |
| Jul 4, 2:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Rice, Scott, Steele, Waseca | 51 min |
| Jul 4, 2:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kanabec, Mille Lacs | 47 min |
| Jul 4, 2:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Sherburne, Wright | 41 min |
| Jul 4, 2:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Carver, Hennepin, McLeod, Sibley | 57 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.