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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 17, 2010, 7:13 PM CDT for Blue Earth County, Steele County, Waseca County, Minnesota. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 17, 2010, 7:13 PM CDT (00:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2010, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Blue Earth County, MN, Steele County, MN, Waseca County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 375 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
- 2136 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
604 WFUS53 KMPX 180013 TORMPX MNC013-147-161-180100- /O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0026.100618T0013Z-100618T0100Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 713 PM CDT THU JUN 17 2010 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN BLUE EARTH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... NORTHERN WASECA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... NORTHWESTERN STEELE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 710 PM CDT...RADAR WAS TRACKING A SEVERE STORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WAS 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ST CLAIR...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE... EAGLE LAKE... ST CLAIR... PEMBERTON... JANESVILLE... 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 4419 9380 4419 9332 4394 9395 4412 9409 TIME...MOT...LOC 0013Z 259DEG 27KT 4405 9393 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin, Ramsey | 35 min |
| Jun 17, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Steele, Waseca | 50 min |
| Jun 17, 7:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chisago, Washington | 2 hr |
| Jun 17, 7:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Steele | 47 min |
| Jun 17, 7:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Steele | 23 min |
| Jun 17, 7:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Steele, Waseca | 6 hr |
| Jun 17, 8:00 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Le Sueur, Nicollet, Rice | 6 hr |
| Jun 17, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago, Isanti | 43 min |
| Jun 17, 8:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Steele | 34 min |
| Jun 17, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 32 min |
| Jun 17, 8:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chisago | 26 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.