Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 33, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2008, 6:09 PM CDT for Lyon County, Murray County, Minnesota. It was in force for 36 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 11, 2008, 6:09 PM CDT (23:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2008, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Lyon County, MN, Murray County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 2:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 792 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 394 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KFSD 112310 TORFSD MNC083-101-112345- /O.NEW.KFSD.TO.W.0033.080611T2309Z-080611T2345Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 609 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN LYON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA NORTH CENTRAL MURRAY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 609 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR TRACY... OR 16 MILES NORTH OF SLAYTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 43 MPH. ANOTHER TORNADIC CIRCULATION WAS LOCATED EAST OF RUSSELL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... RURAL LYON COUNTY NEAR TRACY THROUGH 620 PM CDT THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. TAKE COVER NOW. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4461 9560 4420 9559 4415 9568 4435 9587 TIME...MOT...LOC 2309Z 219DEG 37KT 4424 9563 $$ CHAPMAN
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KFSD 112340 SVSFSD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 640 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2008 MNC083-101-112350- /O.EXP.KFSD.TO.W.0033.000000T0000Z-080611T2345Z/ LYON MN-MURRAY MN- 640 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2008 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL MURRAY AND SOUTHEASTERN LYON COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 645 PM CDT... THE STORM HAS EXITED THE WARNED AREA. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4461 9560 4420 9559 4415 9568 4435 9587 TIME...MOT...LOC 2340Z 219DEG 37KT 4449 9535 $$ BT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 7:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Nobles | 31 min |
| Jun 11, 10:22 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 11, 5:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Nobles | 48 min |
| Jun 11, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Murray | 49 min |
| Jun 11, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Murray | 50 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.