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Tornado Warning 62, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 14, 2003, 8:05 PM CDT for Nicollet 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 14, 2003, 8:05 PM CDT (01:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2003, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Nicollet County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:08 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 14, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 438 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 837 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 357 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 466 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
424 WFUS53 KMPX 150105 TORMPX MNC103-150130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 803 PM CDT MON JUL 14 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NICOLLET COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 803 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER NICOLLET COUNTY...ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF ST PETER...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... NICOLLET OSHAWA NORTH MANKATO. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR LAT...LON 4445 9420 4429 9428 4425 9404 4443 9397 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Washington | 36 min |
| Jul 14, 7:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Brown | 33 min |
| Jul 14, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sibley | 25 min |
| Jul 14, 7:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth | 38 min |
| Jul 14, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Scott | 51 min |
| Jul 14, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Le Sueur | 31 min |
| Jul 14, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth | 32 min |
| Jul 14, 8:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Le Sueur | 33 min |
| Jul 14, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice | 46 min |
| Jul 14, 8:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Waseca | 46 min |
| Jul 14, 9:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Faribault | 41 min |
| Jul 14, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Steele | 41 min |
| Jul 14, 9:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 33 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.