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Tornado Warning 43, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 19, 2008, 2:35 PM CDT for Anoka County, Isanti County, Sherburne County, Minnesota. It was in force for 40 min. 4 reports 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 19, 2008, 2:35 PM CDT (19:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2008, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Anoka County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Sherburne County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:38 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 2:40 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 2 S St Francis, MN | SPOTTED NEAR NOWTHEN AND TROUT BROOK ROAD IN BURNS TOWNSHIP. |
| Jul 19, 2:43 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 1 W St Francis, MN | ON HWY 47 1 MILE W OF TOWN. |
| Jul 19, 2:55 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | St Francis, MN | NEAR HWY 28 AND BARNIUM. |
| Jul 19, 3:15 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 Wsw Bethel, MN | 3 TO 4 FT DIAMETER TREE DOWN BLOCKING NIGHTINGALE ST IN EAST BETHEL. |
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 19, 2:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 67 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
- 1477 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 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 191935 TORMPX MNC003-059-141-192015- /O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0043.080719T1935Z-080719T2015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 235 PM CDT SAT JUL 19 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN ISANTI COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... SOUTHEASTERN SHERBURNE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA... NORTHERN ANOKA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 315 PM CDT * AT 234 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WAS 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF ELK RIVER...AND MOVING EAST AT 28 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS INCLUDE... ST FRANCIS... CEDAR... BETHEL... ISANTI... ATHENS... EAST BETHEL... BODUM... A TORNADO WAS REPORTED NEAR BIG LAKE AT 225 PM WITH THIS TORNADIC STORM. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA AND NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN. LAT...LON 4552 9317 4530 9316 4530 9357 4547 9366 TIME...MOT...LOC 1935Z 267DEG 25KT 4539 9352 $$ LS
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 191949 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 249 PM CDT SAT JUL 19 2008 MNC003-059-141-192015- /O.CON.KMPX.TO.W.0043.000000T0000Z-080719T2015Z/ ISANTI MN-SHERBURNE MN-ANOKA MN- 249 PM CDT SAT JUL 19 2008 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 PM CDT FOR NORTHWESTERN ANOKA...SOUTHEASTERN SHERBURNE AND SOUTHERN ISANTI COUNTIES... AT 240 PM CDT...A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED IN BURNS TOWNSHIP. AT 246 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ST FRANCIS...OR ABOUT OVER ST FRANCIS...AND MOVING EAST AT 38 MPH. MORE ROTATING THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO SOUTHEASTERN SHERBURNE COUNTY. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE CEDAR...BODUM...ATHENS... ZIMMERMAN...ST FRANCIS...ISANTI...ELK RIVER...EAST BETHEL AND BETHEL. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA AND NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN. LAT...LON 4552 9317 4530 9316 4530 9357 4547 9366 TIME...MOT...LOC 1949Z 272DEG 33KT 4536 9334 $$ LS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 1:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sherburne | 46 min |
| Jul 19, 2:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Sherburne | 43 min |
| Jul 19, 2:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Isanti, Mille Lacs | 44 min |
| Jul 19, 2:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Isanti | 51 min |
| Jul 19, 2:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chisago, Isanti | 20 min |
| Jul 19, 3:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Anoka, Chisago, Isanti, Washington | 38 min |
| Jul 19, 4:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Martin | 2 hr |
| Jul 19, 6:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 2 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.