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Tornado Warning 63, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 17, 2010, 1:39 PM CDT for Stearns County, Todd County, Minnesota. It was in force for 51 min. 3 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
- Jul 17, 2010, 1:39 PM CDT (18:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 2010, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Stearns County, MN, Todd County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 2:19 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 3 Wnw Little Sauk, MN | HAIL LASTED OVER 10 MINS. ALSO NOTED TREES DOWN ALONG HWY 27 EAST OF LAKE OSAKIS. |
| Jul 17, 2:34 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 3 W St Rosa, MN | |
| Jul 17, 2:37 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 3 W St Rosa, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 12:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 11 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 368 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1285 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
313
WFUS53 KMPX 171839
TORMPX
MNC145-153-171930-
/O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0063.100717T1839Z-100717T1930Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
139 PM CDT SAT JUL 17 2010
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN TODD COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
NORTH CENTRAL STEARNS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 230 PM CDT
* AT 135 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WAS 5 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF LONG PRAIRIE...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTH OF LITTLE SAUK...AND
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED
WITH THIS STORM.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
LONG PRAIRIE...
LITTLE SAUK...
GREY EAGLE...
GREY EALGE...
NORTH SHORE...
PLEASANT BEACH...
ST ROSA...
BURTRUM...
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 800 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING
FOR CENTRAL MINNESOTA.
&&
LAT...LON 4592 9465 4574 9465 4567 9472 4587 9503
4602 9490
TIME...MOT...LOC 1839Z 301DEG 20KT 4594 9493
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 12:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Kandiyohi, Swift | 60 min |
| Jul 17, 1:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Swift | 52 min |
| Jul 17, 1:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Todd | 44 min |
| Jul 17, 1:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Todd | 56 min |
| Jul 17, 1:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Douglas, Todd | 47 min |
| Jul 17, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns, Todd | 40 min |
| Jul 17, 2:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Benton | 42 min |
| Jul 17, 2:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Stearns | 34 min |
| Jul 17, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker, Stearns, Wright | 62 min |
| Jul 17, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker, Stearns, Wright | 62 min |
| Jul 17, 4:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Carver, Hennepin, Meeker, Wright | 26 min |
| Jul 17, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Hennepin, McLeod, Wright | 60 min |
| Jul 17, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Carver, Hennepin, Wright | 47 min |
| Jul 17, 5:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Morrison, Todd | 65 min |
| Jul 17, 5:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Hennepin | 46 min |
| Jul 17, 5:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Morrison | 41 min |
| Jul 17, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift, Yellow Medicine | 63 min |
| Jul 17, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Mille Lacs, Morrison | 50 min |
| Jul 17, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Renville, Swift, Yellow Medicine | 62 min |
| Jul 17, 6:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Benton, Mille Lacs, Morrison | 51 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.