Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 19, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 2007, 9:06 PM CDT for Freeborn County, Steele County, Minnesota. It was in force for 24 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 16, 2007, 9:06 PM CDT (02:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2007, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Freeborn County, MN, Steele County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1998 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KMPX 170207 TORMPX MNC047-147-170230- /O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0019.070617T0206Z-070617T0230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 906 PM CDT SAT JUN 16 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... STEELE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... FREEBORN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 904 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR GENEVA. RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE STORM MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... GENEVA... BLOOMING PRAIRIE... IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 4384 9328 4379 9328 4379 9306 4389 9306 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 170227 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 926 PM CDT SAT JUN 16 2007 MNC047-147-170232- /O.EXP.KMPX.TO.W.0019.000000T0000Z-070617T0230Z/ STEELE MN-FREEBORN MN- 926 PM CDT SAT JUN 16 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR FREEBORN AND STEELE COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 930 PM CDT... A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER INDICATES THAT THE FUNNEL CLOUD OBSERVED NEAR GENEVA AT 904 PM THIS EVENING DISSIPATED BETWEEN GENEVA AND BLOOMING PRAIRIE. THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 930 PM. LAT...LON 4384 9328 4379 9328 4379 9306 4389 9306 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 8:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn | 54 min |
| Jun 17, 3:18 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Douglas, Faribault, Kandiyohi and 10 more | 18 hr |
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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.