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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 11, 2008, 6:54 PM CDT for Renville County, Minnesota. It was in force for 36 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 11, 2008, 6:54 PM CDT (23:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 2008, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Renville County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 7:21 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Hector, MN | TREE DOWN ACROSS COUNTY ROAD FOUR. SEVERAL OTHER TREES DOWN IN TOWN. GRAIN BINS DAMAGED. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 11, 2:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 890 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -362 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1222 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 393 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KMPX 112354 TORMPX MNC129-120030- /O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0036.080711T2354Z-080712T0030Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 654 PM CDT FRI JUL 11 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RENVILLE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 652 PM CDT...RADAR WAS TRACKING A SEVERE STORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WAS 9 MILES WEST OF BECHYN...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH OF DELHI...AND MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS INCLUDE... BECHYN... OLIVIA... BIRD ISLAND... HECTOR... 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 4490 9464 4461 9462 4460 9513 4469 9529 TIME...MOT...LOC 2354Z 263DEG 39KT 4467 9521 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 11:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 41 min |
| Jul 10, 11:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope, Stevens, Swift | 55 min |
| Jul 10, 11:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Morrison, Pope, Stearns, Todd | 65 min |
| Jul 11, 12:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift | 59 min |
| Jul 11, 12:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker, Stearns | 53 min |
| Jul 11, 1:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Meeker, Renville, Swift, Yellow Medicine | 54 min |
| Jul 11, 1:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Morrison | 65 min |
| Jul 11, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Todd | 30 min |
| Jul 11, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Pope, Swift | 47 min |
| Jul 11, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Todd | 45 min |
| Jul 11, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 46 min |
| Jul 11, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker, Stearns | 57 min |
| Jul 11, 6:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker | 47 min |
| Jul 11, 6:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker, Stearns | 54 min |
| Jul 11, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Meeker, Stearns | 65 min |
| Jul 11, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood, Renville, Sibley | 55 min |
| Jul 11, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Morrison | 54 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.