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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 17, 2010Meeker County, Stearns County, Wright County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 17, 2010, 5:02 PM CDT for Meeker County, Stearns County, Wright County, Minnesota. It was in force for 43 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, 2010, 5:02 PM CDT (22:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2010, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Meeker County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Wright County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:05 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, 5:03 PM CDT	FUNNEL CLOUD	Kingston, MN	ROTATING WALL CLOUD
Jun 17, 5:05 PM CDT	HAIL 1	South Haven, MN
Jun 17, 5:23 PM CDT	FUNNEL CLOUD	South Haven, MN
Jun 17, 5:23 PM CDT	HAIL 1.75	St Augusta, MN
Jun 17, 5:30 PM CDT	FUNNEL CLOUD	2 Ene Fairhaven, MN	WALL CLOUD
Jun 17, 5:43 PM CDT	FUNNEL CLOUD	Clearwater, MN	ROTATING WALL CLOUD
Jun 17, 5:54 PM CDT	HAIL 1	3 N Kimball, MN
Jun 17, 5:54 PM CDT	HAIL 1	3 N Kimball, MN

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, 1:54 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 69 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -317 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1224 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

464 
WFUS53 KMPX 172202
TORMPX
MNC093-145-171-172245-
/O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0010.100617T2202Z-100617T2245Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
502 PM CDT THU JUN 17 2010

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN STEARNS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
  NORTHERN WRIGHT COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
  NORTHEASTERN MEEKER COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA...

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 456 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WAS 3 MILES WEST OF
  KINGSTON...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTH OF DARWIN...AND MOVING           
  NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF HALF DOLLARS IS POSSIBLE  
  WITH THIS TORNADIC STORM.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
  ST CLOUD...
  WATKINS...
  ST NICHOLAS...
  KIMBALL...
  SOUTH HAVEN...
  ANNANDALE...
  FAIRHAVEN...
  MAPLE LAKE...
  LUXEMBURG...
  ST AUGUSTA...
  PLEASANT LAKE...
  CLEARWATER...

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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHERN MINNESOTA.

&&

LAT...LON 4560 9418 4559 9416 4550 9414 4539 9397
      4539 9393 4535 9388 4530 9377 4531 9369
      4529 9361 4509 9431 4531 9458
TIME...MOT...LOC 2201Z 221DEG 31KT 4522 9432

$$

TRH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 7:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Stevens	25 min
Jun 17, 8:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Douglas	49 min
Jun 17, 9:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Douglas, Todd	90 min
Jun 17, 10:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Todd	61 min
Jun 17, 2:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Douglas, Pope, Swift	55 min
Jun 17, 2:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Douglas, Pope, Stevens	63 min
Jun 17, 2:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Douglas	39 min
Jun 17, 3:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Douglas	20 min
Jun 17, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Brown, Nicollet, Renville, Sibley	47 min
Jun 17, 3:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Douglas	30 min
Jun 17, 3:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Brown, Nicollet, Renville, Sibley	40 min
Jun 17, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Brown, Watonwan	50 min
Jun 17, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Meeker, Renville	61 min
Jun 17, 4:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Martin, Watonwan	37 min
Jun 17, 4:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Stearns	52 min
Jun 17, 4:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	McLeod, Renville, Sibley	54 min
Jun 17, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Nicollet, Sibley	34 min
Jun 17, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Faribault, Martin	59 min
Jun 17, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Morrison, Todd	59 min
Jun 17, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Faribault, Watonwan	50 min
Jun 17, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Meeker, Stearns, Wright	47 min
Jun 17, 5:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Faribault	25 min
Jun 17, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver, Hennepin, McLeod, Wright	53 min
Jun 17, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Benton, Mille Lacs, Sherburne	55 min
Jun 17, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Rice, Waseca	65 min
Jun 17, 5:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Carver, McLeod, Wright	47 min
Jun 17, 5:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Faribault, Freeborn	32 min
Jun 17, 5:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Rice, Waseca	28 min
Jun 17, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Nicollet	25 min
Jun 17, 5:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Benton, Sherburne	51 min
Jun 17, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Brown, Nicollet, Sibley	31 min
Jun 17, 5:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Faribault, Freeborn	49 min
Jun 17, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Stearns	17 min
Jun 17, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Nicollet, Watonwan	60 min
Jun 17, 6:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Sherburne, Wright	42 min
Jun 17, 6:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Benton, Mille Lacs	53 min
Jun 17, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	McLeod, Renville	24 min
Jun 17, 6:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Todd	30 min
Jun 17, 6:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Nicollet	29 min
Jun 17, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Faribault, Waseca	62 min
Jun 17, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Anoka, Isanti, Sherburne, Wright	55 min
Jun 17, 6:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Faribault, Waseca	39 min
Jun 17, 6:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Nicollet	33 min
Jun 17, 6:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Freeborn, Steele	46 min
Jun 17, 6:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Sherburne	41 min
Jun 17, 6:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Sherburne	34 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.