Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2010
Tornado Warning 20, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 17, 2010, 6:36 PM CDT for Blue Earth County, Faribault County, Waseca County, Minnesota. It was in force for 39 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, 2010, 6:36 PM CDT (23:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2010, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Blue Earth County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Waseca County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:38 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 6:53 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 2 Nw Minnesota Lake, MN | |
| Jun 17, 7:00 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | Pemberton, 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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
349 WFUS53 KMPX 172336 TORMPX MNC013-043-161-180015- /O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0020.100617T2336Z-100618T0015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 636 PM CDT THU JUN 17 2010 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN BLUE EARTH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... WASECA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... NORTH CENTRAL FARIBAULT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 633 PM CDT...RADAR WAS TRACKING A SEVERE STORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WAS 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF EASTON...OR ABOUT 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF DELAVAN...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE... WASECA... MINNESOTA LAKE... MAPLETON... PEMBERTON... JANESVILLE... WALDORF... 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. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN. && LAT...LON 4417 9372 4407 9342 4373 9390 4384 9413 TIME...MOT...LOC 2336Z 224DEG 35KT 4383 9396 $$
1 follow-up statement
750 WWUS53 KMPX 172351 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 651 PM CDT THU JUN 17 2010 MNC013-043-161-180015- /O.CON.KMPX.TO.W.0020.000000T0000Z-100618T0015Z/ BLUE EARTH MN-WASECA MN-FARIBAULT MN- 651 PM CDT THU JUN 17 2010 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL FARIBAULT... WASECA AND SOUTHEASTERN BLUE EARTH COUNTIES UNTIL 715 PM CDT... AT 647 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MINNESOTA LAKE...OR 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF BLUE EARTH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... WASECA...PEMBERTON...JANESVILLE AND WALDORF. LAT...LON 4417 9372 4407 9342 4373 9390 4384 9413 TIME...MOT...LOC 2351Z 239DEG 31KT 4389 9383 $$
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, 5:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Meeker, Stearns, Wright | 43 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, 6:42 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.