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Tornado Warning 52, NWS Twin Cities, MN

July 9, 2003Renville County, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 9, 2003, 5:20 PM CDT for Renville County, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. It was in force for 25 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, 5:20 PM CDT (22:20 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 2003, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Renville County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:21 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

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 154 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: 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

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The text

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

342 
WFUS53 KMPX 092220
TORMPX
MNC129-173-092245-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  WESTERN RENVILLE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 517 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRANITE FALLS. MOVEMENT WAS
  SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH...TOWARD GRANITE FALLS.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  GRANITE FALLS.
  HANLEY FALLS.
  HAZEL RUN.
  MINNESOTA FALLS.
  SACRED HEART.

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

LAT...LON 4487 9578 4467 9572 4466 9539 4485 9499
          4478 9552 4482 9566

$$

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, 5:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Brown, Nicollet	53 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.