Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 65, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 14, 2003, 8:44 PM CDT for Blue Earth County, Waseca County, Minnesota. It was in force for 46 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, 8:44 PM CDT (01:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2003, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Blue Earth County, MN, Waseca County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:43 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 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, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jul 14, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 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
- 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.
794 WFUS53 KMPX 150144 TORMPX MNC013-161-150230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 842 PM CDT MON JUL 14 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN BLUE EARTH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA WASECA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 842 PM CDT...SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR ST CLARE...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MANKATO... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... EAGLE LAKE. JANESVILLE. ST CLAIR. WASECA. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR LAT...LON 4419 9393 4404 9393 4404 9343 4418 9343 & $$
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, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Nicollet | 25 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, 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 |
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.