Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2010
Tornado Warning 49, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 26, 2010, 9:35 PM CDT for Steele County, Waseca County, Minnesota. It was in force for 25 min. 1 report 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 26, 2010, 9:35 PM CDT (02:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2010, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Steele County, MN, Waseca County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 9:44 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | Waseca, 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 26, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 1959 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 876 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.1
- Supercell composite
- -0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
312 WFUS53 KMPX 270235 TORMPX MNC147-161-270300- /O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0049.100627T0235Z-100627T0300Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 935 PM CDT SAT JUN 26 2010 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN WASECA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... WEST CENTRAL STEELE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT * AT 932 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WAS 6 MILES WEST OF WASECA...OR ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF JANESVILLE...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE... WASECA... DEERFIELD... 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. && LAT...LON 4417 9327 4397 9329 4403 9366 4419 9363 TIME...MOT...LOC 0235Z 280DEG 28KT 4409 9358 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 7:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Brown, Nicollet, Watonwan | 51 min |
| Jun 26, 7:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Carver, Hennepin, Scott | 61 min |
| Jun 26, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Le Sueur, Nicollet, Sibley, Watonwan | 57 min |
| Jun 26, 8:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Martin, Watonwan | 4 hr |
| Jun 26, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Martin, Watonwan | 43 min |
| Jun 26, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Scott, Sibley | 53 min |
| Jun 26, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Nicollet | 30 min |
| Jun 26, 8:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Dakota, Freeborn, Le Sueur, Rice, Scott, Steele and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 26, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Le Sueur, Rice, Scott | 84 min |
| Jun 26, 9:00 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MPX | Carver | 5 hr |
| Jun 26, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Freeborn, Martin, Steele, Waseca | 60 min |
| Jun 26, 9:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Rice, Scott | 34 min |
| Jun 26, 9:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dakota, Scott | 48 min |
| Jun 26, 9:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 4 hr |
| Jun 26, 9:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn, Steele, Waseca | 28 min |
| Jun 26, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue, Washington | 82 min |
| Jun 26, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn, Steele, Waseca | 49 min |
| Jun 26, 10:14 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MPX | Washington | 4 hr |
| Jun 26, 10:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 61 min |
| Jun 26, 10:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Hennepin, Ramsey, Washington | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 12:31 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue, Ramsey, Washington | 59 min |
| Jun 27, 10:42 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Nicollet | 4 days |
| Jun 27, 10:42 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Nicollet | 9 days |
| Jun 27, 10:42 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Scott, Sibley | 8 days |
| Jun 27, 10:42 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MPX | Carver, Scott | 11 days |
| Jun 27, 10:42 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MPX | Carver, Hennepin, Scott | 11 days |
| Jun 27, 10:42 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MPX | Dakota, Hennepin, Scott | 3 days |
| Jun 27, 10:42 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MPX | Redwood | 49 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.