Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 51, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 9, 2003, 5:07 PM CDT for Blue Earth County, Brown County, Nicollet County, Minnesota. It was in force for 53 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, 5:07 PM CDT (22:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2003, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Nicollet County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 9, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1344 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
099 WFUS53 KMPX 092207 TORMPX MNC013-015-103-092300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 506 PM CDT WED JUL 9 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BROWN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA NICOLLET COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA BLUE EARTH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 506 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COURTLAND...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NEW ULM...MOVING EAST TO SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... COURTLAND. HANSKA. LAKE CRYSTAL. NEW ULM. NICOLLET. SKYLINE. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR LAT...LON 4440 9463 4414 9460 4406 9401 4433 9409 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Stevens | 23 min |
| 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, 5:20 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.