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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 17, 2010, 8:13 PM CDT for Freeborn County, Minnesota. It was in force for 32 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, 8:13 PM CDT (01:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2010, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Freeborn County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 128 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 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 326 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.
309 WFUS53 KMPX 180113 TORMPX MNC047-180145- /O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0030.100618T0113Z-100618T0145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 813 PM CDT THU JUN 17 2010 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... FREEBORN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 809 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WAS 3 MILES SOUTH OF FREEBORN...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE... ALBERT LEA... HAYWARD... MANCHESTER... TWIN LAKES... CLARKS GROVE... GLENVILLE... GENEVA... HOLLANDALE... MYRTLE... HARTLAND... 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 4385 9307 4351 9306 4351 9364 4384 9364 TIME...MOT...LOC 0113Z 265DEG 34KT 4373 9350 $$
1 follow-up statement
902 WWUS53 KMPX 180136 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 836 PM CDT THU JUN 17 2010 MNC047-180145- /O.CON.KMPX.TO.W.0030.000000T0000Z-100618T0145Z/ FREEBORN MN- 836 PM CDT THU JUN 17 2010 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR FREEBORN COUNTY UNTIL 845 PM CDT... AT 832 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HOLLANDALE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MYRTLE. LAT...LON 4385 9307 4351 9306 4351 9364 4384 9364 TIME...MOT...LOC 0136Z 274DEG 32KT 4370 9318 $$
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, 8:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Steele | 34 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.