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Tornado Warning 71, NWS Twin Cities, MN

July 19, 2003Stearns County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 19, 2003, 5:02 PM CDT for Stearns County, Minnesota. It was in force for 43 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 19, 2003, 5:02 PM CDT (22:02 UTC)
Expired: Jul 19, 2003, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Stearns County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:04 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 19, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 108 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: 1684 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 111 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.

974 
WFUS53 KMPX 192202
TORMPX
MNC145-192245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
501 PM CDT SAT JUL 19 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  STEARNS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 501 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO OVER AVON...OR ABOUT 14 MILES WEST OF ST CLOUD...MOVING
  SOUTH AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  ALBANY.
  AVON.
  SARTELL.
  COLD SPRING.
  ROCKVILLE.
  ST JOSEPH.
  COLLEGEVILLE.
 
GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR

LAT...LON 4569 9477 4535 9470 4539 9413 4571 9428

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 19, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Morrison, Todd	61 min
Jul 19, 3:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Todd	33 min
Jul 19, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Morrison	62 min
Jul 19, 4:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Morrison	25 min
Jul 19, 4:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Morrison	54 min
Jul 19, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Todd	52 min
Jul 19, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Stearns	54 min
Jul 19, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Morrison	34 min
Jul 19, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Todd	49 min
Jul 19, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Stearns	43 min
Jul 19, 5:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Stearns	36 min
Jul 19, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Meeker	60 min
Jul 19, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Meeker	59 min
Jul 19, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	McLeod	59 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.