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Tornado Warning 29, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 17, 2010, 8:11 PM CDT for Steele County, Minnesota. It was in force for 34 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, 8:11 PM CDT (01:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2010, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Steele County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:14 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, 8:15 PM CDT | TORNADO | 1 W Blooming Prairie, MN | |
| Jun 17, 8:24 PM CDT | TORNADO | 3 Nw Blooming Prairie, MN | *** 1 INJ *** NWS STORM SURVEY TEAM DETERMINED AN EF-2 TORNADO OCCURRED WITH A PATH LENGTH OF APPROXIMATELY TWO AND A HALF MILES. IT DISSIPATED INTO WESTERN DODGE COUNTY. A MANUFACTURED HOME AND SEVERAL SHEDS AND OUTBUILDINGS WERE DESTROYED. |
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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 352 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
- 1494 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1231 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 271 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 5.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
097 WFUS53 KMPX 180111 TORMPX MNC147-180145- /O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0029.100618T0111Z-100618T0145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 811 PM CDT THU JUN 17 2010 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... STEELE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 809 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BIXBY...OR ABOUT 3 MILES WEST OF BLOOMING PRAIRIE. RADAR SHOWED THE TORNADIC STORM MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. A SECOND TORNADIC STORM WAS LOCATED SOUTH OF OWATONNA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE... OWATONNA... STEELE CENTER... BIXBY... DEERFIELD... MEDFORD... CLINTON FALLS... MERTON... MOLAND... 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 SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN. && LAT...LON 4419 9340 4420 9306 4385 9306 4385 9340 TIME...MOT...LOC 0111Z 221DEG 25KT 4388 9311 $$
1 follow-up statement
814 WWUS53 KMPX 180135 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 835 PM CDT THU JUN 17 2010 MNC147-180145- /O.CON.KMPX.TO.W.0029.000000T0000Z-100618T0145Z/ STEELE MN- 835 PM CDT THU JUN 17 2010 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR STEELE COUNTY UNTIL 845 PM CDT... AT 832 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES EAST OF OWATONNA...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MEDFORD...MERTON AND MOLAND. LAT...LON 4419 9340 4420 9306 4385 9306 4385 9340 TIME...MOT...LOC 0135Z 197DEG 14KT 4412 9310 $$
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, 7:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Steele, Waseca | 47 min |
| 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, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 32 min |
| Jun 17, 8:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chisago | 26 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.