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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 23, 2003Renville County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 2003, 5:29 PM CDT for Renville County, Minnesota. It was in force for 31 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: Jun 23, 2003, 5:29 PM CDT (22:29 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2003, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Renville County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:30 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, 10.5 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.

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: 627 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 795 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 110 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 232229
TORMPX
MNC129-232300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
528 PM CDT MON JUN 23 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEAST RENVILLE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 528 PM CDT...SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A STORM CAPABLE OF
  PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER RENVILLE COUNTY...OR ABOUT 12 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF OLIVIA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RURAL AREAS NORTH OF BIRD ISLAND AND HECTOR
  
GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR

LAT...LON 4488 9488 4482 9488 4487 9454 4489 9453

&

$$
BAP/RAH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Pope	37 min
Jun 22, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Mille Lacs	35 min
Jun 22, 10:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Meeker	41 min
Jun 22, 11:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Meeker	24 min
Jun 22, 11:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Meeker	22 min
Jun 23, 4:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Le Sueur	48 min
Jun 23, 7:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Redwood	42 min
Jun 23, 1:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Douglas	49 min
Jun 23, 1:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Pope	40 min
Jun 23, 1:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Todd	41 min
Jun 23, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi	33 min
Jun 23, 3:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi	35 min
Jun 23, 4:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi, Stearns	113 min
Jun 23, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Meeker, Stearns	63 min
Jun 23, 4:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Meeker	30 min
Jun 23, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Renville	24 min
Jun 23, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Renville	14 min
Jun 23, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi, Meeker	28 min
Jun 23, 5:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Douglas, Todd	2 hr
Jun 23, 6:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Renville	37 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.