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Tornado Warning 43, NWS Twin Cities, MN

July 9, 2003Stevens County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 9, 2003, 3:37 PM CDT for Stevens County, Minnesota. It was in force for 23 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 9, 2003, 3:37 PM CDT (20:37 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 2003, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Stevens County, MN

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 186 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:36 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

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 200 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: 12 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -127 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 669 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 114 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KMPX 092037
TORMPX
MNC149-092100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
336 PM CDT WED JUL 9 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  STEVENS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 336 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A TORNADO
  6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ALBERTA...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  MORRIS...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  ALBERTA.
  CHOKIO.
  HANCOCK.
  MORRIS.

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

LAT...LON 4561 9624 4540 9608 4548 9578 4575 9580

&

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 9, 3:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Redwood, Renville	51 min
Jul 9, 3:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Stevens	32 min
Jul 9, 4:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Brown, Nicollet	30 min
Jul 9, 4:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Brown, Nicollet	25 min
Jul 9, 4:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Renville	18 min
Jul 9, 4:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Brown, Nicollet	36 min
Jul 9, 5:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Swift	45 min
Jul 9, 5:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Brown, Nicollet	53 min
Jul 9, 5:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Renville, Yellow Medicine	25 min
Jul 9, 5:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi, Renville	40 min
Jul 9, 5:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Blue Earth	51 min
Jul 9, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Meeker, Renville	45 min
Jul 9, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	McLeod, Sibley	51 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.