Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2009
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 17, 2009, 8:04 PM CDT for Rice County, Steele County, Waseca County, Minnesota. It was in force for 26 min. 8 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, 8:04 PM CDT (01:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2009, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Rice County, MN, Steele County, MN, Waseca County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:07 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 8:05 PM CDT | HAIL 2.75 | 7 W Owatonna, MN | HAIL PHOTOGRAPHED AND MEASURED 2.75 INCHES ONE MILE NORTHEAST OF MERIDEN. |
| Jun 17, 8:13 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 1 Ne Waseca, MN | ROTATING WALL CLOUD WITH MULTIPLE FUNNELS DROPPING AND GOING BACK INTO THE CLOUD. |
| Jun 17, 8:14 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 1 Ne Waseca, MN | |
| Jun 17, 8:14 PM CDT | TORNADO | 1 E Waseca, MN | TOUCHED DOWN ON CLEAR LAKE THEN MOVED ONSHORE. TREE DOWN BUT NO PROPERTY DAMAGE. |
| Jun 17, 8:14 PM CDT | TORNADO | 1 Ne Waseca, MN | MULTIPLE VORTEX TORNADO. |
| Jun 17, 8:18 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | Owatonna, MN | ROTATING WALL CLOUD...MULTIPLE FUNNELLS...SOUTHEAST SIDE...HAVANA TOWNSHIP. |
| Jun 17, 8:25 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | Owatonna, MN | |
| Jun 17, 8:37 PM CDT | HAIL 1.5 | Owatonna, MN | HAIL REPORTED ON EAST SIDE OF CITY. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 7:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 1471 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 751 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 350 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 12.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KMPX 180104 TORMPX MNC131-147-161-180130- /O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0008.090618T0104Z-090618T0130Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 804 PM CDT WED JUN 17 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN RICE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... NORTHEASTERN WASECA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... NORTHERN STEELE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 804 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF WASECA...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DEERFIELD. RADAR SHOWED THE TORNADIC STORM MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE... DEERFIELD... MOLAND... MERTON... CLINTON FALLS... OWATONNA... MEDFORD... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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 4420 9306 4403 9306 4405 9356 4420 9354 TIME...MOT...LOC 0104Z 274DEG 19KT 4412 9348 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 180117 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 817 PM CDT WED JUN 17 2009 MNC131-147-161-180130- /O.CON.KMPX.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-090618T0130Z/ RICE MN-WASECA MN-STEELE MN- 817 PM CDT WED JUN 17 2009 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR NORTHERN STEELE...NORTHEASTERN WASECA AND EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN RICE COUNTIES... AT 815 PM CDT...A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED NORTHEAST OF WASECA. AT 816 PM CDT... THE TORNADIC SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES EAST OF WASECA...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTH OF DEERFIELD...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... OWATONNA BY 830 PM CDT... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. && LAT...LON 4420 9306 4403 9306 4405 9356 4420 9354 TIME...MOT...LOC 0116Z 279DEG 16KT 4409 9340 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 7:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Martin, Waseca, Watonwan | 33 min |
| Jun 17, 7:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Rice | 31 min |
| Jun 17, 7:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Steele | 44 min |
| Jun 17, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Rice, Steele, Waseca | 56 min |
| Jun 17, 8:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Steele | 33 min |
| Jun 17, 9:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Goodhue | 113 min |
| Jun 17, 9:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chisago, Dakota, Goodhue, Ramsey, Washington | 97 min |
| Jun 17, 10:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue, Washington | 42 min |
| Jun 17, 11:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Dakota | 52 min |
| Jun 17, 11:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 40 min |
| Jun 18, 12:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 50 min |
| Jun 18, 1:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 55 min |
| Jun 18, 2:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Douglas | 48 min |
| Jun 18, 2:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Todd | 53 min |
| Jun 18, 2:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Todd | 51 min |
| Jun 18, 3:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Stearns | 57 min |
| Jun 18, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 64 min |
| Jun 18, 3:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Todd | 57 min |
| Jun 18, 4:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Morrison | 59 min |
| Jun 18, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison, Stearns | 43 min |
| Jun 18, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Morrison, Stearns | 62 min |
| Jun 18, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Mille Lacs, Morrison | 56 min |
| Jun 18, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kanabec | 58 min |
| Jun 18, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stevens | 61 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.