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Tornado Warning 55, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 10, 2010, 6:00 PM CDT for Douglas County, Minnesota. It was in force for 60 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
- Jul 10, 2010, 6:00 PM CDT (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2010, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Douglas County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 196 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:04 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 4:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 3 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 578 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1632 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
027 WFUS53 KMPX 102300 TORMPX MNC041-110000- /O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0055.100710T2300Z-100711T0000Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 600 PM CDT SAT JUL 10 2010 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN DOUGLAS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 559 PM CDT...RADAR WAS TRACKING A SEVERE STORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WAS NEAR MELBY...OR OVER MELBY...AND MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE... EVANSVILLE... BRANDON... MILLERVILLE... GARFIELD... MILTONA... CARLOS... LEAF VALLEY... BELLE RIVER... 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 1100 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. && LAT...LON 4610 9520 4594 9519 4594 9576 4611 9576 TIME...MOT...LOC 2300Z 281DEG 9KT 4608 9570 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 6:10 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Kanabec | 65 min |
| Jul 10, 6:40 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Kanabec, Mille Lacs | 50 min |
| Jul 10, 7:48 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Kandiyohi | 57 min |
| Jul 10, 8:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker | 45 min |
| Jul 10, 10:51 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | McLeod | 54 min |
| Jul 10, 3:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Dakota | 46 min |
| Jul 10, 5:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Douglas | 58 min |
| Jul 10, 5:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Pope, Stevens | 58 min |
| Jul 10, 5:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope | 62 min |
| Jul 10, 6:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Stevens | 19 min |
| Jul 10, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stevens, Swift | 58 min |
| Jul 10, 6:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope | 65 min |
| Jul 10, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Todd | 41 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.