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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2008, 7:16 PM CDT for Redwood County, Minnesota. It was in force for 14 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, 7:16 PM CDT (00:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2008, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 14 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Redwood County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 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 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -333 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 523 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 574 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 740 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KMPX 120016
TORMPX
MNC127-120030-
/O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0022.080612T0016Z-080612T0030Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
716 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
EASTERN REDWOOD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 730 PM CDT
* AT 712 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WAS 3 MILES SOUTH OF
CLEMENTS...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 39 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS INCLUDE...
MORGAN...
REDWOOD FALLS...
NORTH REDWOOD...
WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON RADAR...IT MEANS THAT
STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY
BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY.
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 4460 9514 4449 9487 4428 9488 4429 9513
4435 9520
TIME...MOT...LOC 0016Z 220DEG 34KT 4437 9502
$$
TRH1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS53 KMPX 120032
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
730 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2008
MNC127-120040-
/O.EXP.KMPX.TO.W.0022.000000T0000Z-080612T0030Z/
REDWOOD MN-
730 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2008
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN REDWOOD COUNTY EXPIRES AT 730 PM
CDT...
THE STORM HAS MOVED OUT OF THE COUNTY AND WEAKENED.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN MINNESOTA.
LAT...LON 4460 9514 4449 9487 4428 9489 4429 9513
4435 9520
TIME...MOT...LOC 0016Z 220DEG 34KT 4437 9502
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Brown, Watonwan | 37 min |
| Jun 11, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope | 47 min |
| Jun 11, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Brown, Nicollet | 30 min |
| Jun 11, 7:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Watonwan | 37 min |
| Jun 11, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Martin | 40 min |
| Jun 11, 8:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Nicollet | 23 min |
| Jun 11, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault | 49 min |
| Jun 11, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Le Sueur, Scott, Sibley | 64 min |
| Jun 11, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Sibley | 27 min |
| Jun 11, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Waseca | 38 min |
| Jun 11, 9:15 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MPX | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Dakota and 21 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 11, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Steele, Waseca | 56 min |
| Jun 11, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Hennepin | 44 min |
| Jun 11, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Hennepin, Scott | 37 min |
| Jun 11, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn | 52 min |
| Jun 11, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Steele, Waseca | 42 min |
| Jun 11, 11:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 4 hr |
| Jun 12, 2:02 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 13 hr |
| Jun 12, 2:18 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MPX | Goodhue, Olmsted | 31 hr |
| Jun 12, 2:18 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 31 hr |
| Jun 12, 2:52 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 8 hr |
| Jun 12, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle, Swift | 39 min |
| Jun 12, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 28 min |
| Jun 12, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope | 41 min |
| Jun 12, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Swift | 30 min |
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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.