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Tornado Warning 41, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 2010, 7:13 PM CDT for Blue Earth County, Le Sueur County, Waseca County, Minnesota. It was in force for 62 min. 7 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 25, 2010, 7:13 PM CDT (00:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2010, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Blue Earth County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Waseca County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 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 25, 7:15 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Mankato, MN | |
| Jun 25, 7:17 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Mankato, MN | POWERLINES DOWN ACROSS 169 |
| Jun 25, 7:22 PM CDT | TORNADO | 2 S St Clair, MN | TORNADO REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT IN PROGRESS WHEN REPORTED |
| Jun 25, 7:45 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 1 N Waldorf, MN | |
| Jun 25, 7:45 PM CDT | TORNADO | Waldorf, MN | RAIN WRAPPED TORNADO REPORTED NEAR AND NORTH OF TOWN. |
| Jun 25, 7:55 PM CDT | HAIL 4.25 | 2 Ne Waldorf, MN | BROKE WINDOWS OF VEHICLE. |
| Jun 25, 8:06 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | New Richland, 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 25, 3:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 1350 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1067 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 350 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.6
- Supercell composite
- 13.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
536 WFUS53 KMPX 260013 TORMPX MNC013-079-161-260115- /O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0041.100626T0013Z-100626T0115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 713 PM CDT FRI JUN 25 2010 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL LE SUEUR COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... EASTERN BLUE EARTH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... WASECA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 713 PM CDT...RADAR WAS TRACKING A SEVERE STORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WAS 4 MILES SOUTH OF MANKATO...OR ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NORTH MANKATO...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE... WASECA... MAPLETON... EAGLE LAKE... ST CLAIR... PEMBERTON... JANESVILLE... ELYSIAN... OTISCO... NEW RICHLAND... MADISON LAKE... GREENLAND... 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. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHERN MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. && LAT...LON 4417 9343 4386 9344 4385 9423 4424 9394 TIME...MOT...LOC 0014Z 282DEG 30KT 4411 9397 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Ramsey, Washington | 36 min |
| Jun 25, 7:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 43 min |
| Jun 25, 7:29 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Le Sueur, Nicollet, Rice, Sibley and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 25, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Watonwan | 60 min |
| Jun 25, 7:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue | 27 min |
| Jun 25, 7:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Martin, Watonwan | 53 min |
| Jun 25, 7:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Freeborn, Steele, Waseca | 33 min |
| Jun 25, 8:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Freeborn, Steele, Waseca | 64 min |
| Jun 25, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Martin, Watonwan | 60 min |
| Jun 25, 8:43 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MPX | Faribault, Martin, Watonwan | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 4:34 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Dakota, Faribault, Freeborn and 14 more | 22 hr |
| Jun 26, 3:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 47 min |
| Jun 26, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine | 60 min |
| Jun 26, 4:43 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Renville, Yellow Medicine | 4 hr |
| Jun 26, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Redwood, Renville, Yellow Medicine | 63 min |
| Jun 26, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Redwood, Renville, Yellow Medicine | 45 min |
| Jun 26, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Renville | 58 min |
| Jun 26, 6:02 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker, Redwood, Renville | 4 hr |
| Jun 26, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Nicollet, Redwood, Renville | 59 min |
| Jun 26, 6:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | McLeod | 55 min |
| Jun 26, 6:58 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MPX | Brown, McLeod, Meeker, Nicollet, Sibley | 6 hr |
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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.