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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 17, 2009, 6:37 PM CDT for 4 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 38 min. 2 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
- Jun 17, 2009, 6:37 PM CDT (23:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2009, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Faribault County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Steele County, MN, Waseca County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 7:05 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 2 W Geneva, MN | TROOPER REPORTED FUNNEL CLOSE TO GROUND WEST OF I-35 AND GENEVA. |
| Jun 17, 7:25 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 1 W Geneva, MN | NEAR I-35 AND FREEBORN CR 35...ROTATING WALL CLOUD WITH FUNNEL DROPPING TOWARDS THE GROUND. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 487 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 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 172337
TORMPX
MNC043-047-147-161-180015-
/O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0004.090617T2337Z-090618T0015Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
637 PM CDT WED JUN 17 2009
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN WASECA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
SOUTHERN STEELE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
EXTREME NORTHEASTERN FARIBAULT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
FREEBORN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 715 PM CDT
* AT 635 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO. THE MOST
DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WAS 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF HARTLAND...OR
ABOUT 4 MILES NORTH OF FREEBORN...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
MANCHESTER...
HARTLAND...
ALBERT LEA...
NEW RICHLAND...
STEELE CENTER...
BIXBY...
HOLLANDALE...
HAYWARD...
GENEVA...
ELLENDALE...
CLARKS GROVE...
BLOOMING PRAIRIE...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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.
&&
LAT...LON 4355 9363 4389 9369 4403 9304 4396 9304
4362 9304
TIME...MOT...LOC 2337Z 247DEG 11KT 4383 9356
$$
JVMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 9:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 45 min |
| Jun 16, 10:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Lac qui Parle | 44 min |
| Jun 17, 7:03 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Redwood | 42 min |
| Jun 17, 7:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Redwood | 43 min |
| Jun 17, 7:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Watonwan | 62 min |
| Jun 17, 8:10 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Brown | 65 min |
| Jun 17, 9:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Faribault | 59 min |
| Jun 17, 9:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Faribault | 47 min |
| Jun 17, 10:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn | 58 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.