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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 2008, 8:05 PM CDT for Kandiyohi County, Meeker County, Minnesota. It was in force for 25 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 14, 2008, 8:05 PM CDT (01:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2008, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Kandiyohi County, MN, Meeker County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:07 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 14, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 2538 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KMPX 150104
TORMPX
MNC067-093-150130-
/O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0027.080615T0105Z-080615T0130Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
805 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN KANDIYOHI COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
NORTHERN MEEKER COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 830 PM CDT
* AT 802 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 3 MILES
NORTHEAST OF NEW LONDON. RADAR SHOWED THE TORNADIC STORM MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 57 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS INCLUDE...
HAWICK...
MANANNAH...
LITCHFIELD...
DARWIN...
LAT...LON 4533 9501 4539 9491 4536 9476 4532 9475
4533 9461 4527 9431 4505 9440
TIME...MOT...LOC 0105Z 294DEG 49KT 4532 9485
$$
KATThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Kandiyohi, Meeker, Pope, Sherburne, Stearns and 2 more | 53 min |
| Jun 14, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Swift | 27 min |
| Jun 14, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, McLeod, Meeker, Sherburne, Stearns, Wright | 62 min |
| Jun 14, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Carver, Hennepin, Isanti, McLeod, Ramsey and 3 more | 62 min |
| Jun 14, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wright | 15 min |
| Jun 14, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue, Hennepin, Ramsey, Washington | 50 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.