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Tornado Warning 79, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 27, 2010, 4:19 PM CDT for Douglas County, Pope County, Stevens County, Minnesota. It was in force for 41 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 27, 2010, 4:19 PM CDT (21:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2010, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Douglas County, MN, Pope County, MN, Stevens County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 203 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:22 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 27, 3:29 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 2143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 832 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 220 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 21.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
424
WFUS53 KMPX 272119
TORMPX
MNC041-121-149-272200-
/O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0079.100727T2119Z-100727T2200Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
419 PM CDT TUE JUL 27 2010
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
NORTHWESTERN POPE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
NORTHEASTERN STEVENS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 500 PM CDT
* AT 417 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WAS 6 MILES NORTH OF
DONNELLY...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
KENSINGTON...
FARWELL...
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 TUESDAY EVENING
FOR CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN.
&&
LAT...LON 4577 9602 4577 9583 4576 9577 4584 9576
4580 9550 4559 9558 4569 9606
TIME...MOT...LOC 2119Z 281DEG 22KT 4577 9595
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 3:54 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | MPX | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Dakota and 24 more | 15 hr |
| Jul 27, 6:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison, Todd | 49 min |
| Jul 27, 7:36 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Morrison, Todd | 39 min |
| Jul 27, 8:37 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Morrison, Todd | 53 min |
| Jul 27, 9:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison, Todd | 32 min |
| Jul 27, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 36 min |
| Jul 27, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Todd | 39 min |
| Jul 27, 4:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Morrison | 33 min |
| Jul 27, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Morrison, Todd | 45 min |
| Jul 27, 5:08 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MPX | Benton, Douglas, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Pope and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 5:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Benton, Morrison, Stearns | 46 min |
| Jul 27, 5:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Douglas, Morrison, Stearns, Todd | 44 min |
| Jul 27, 5:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Kandiyohi | 39 min |
| Jul 27, 5:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Benton, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Stearns | 40 min |
| Jul 27, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Stearns | 35 min |
| Jul 27, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Morrison | 45 min |
| Jul 27, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker | 59 min |
| Jul 27, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Mille Lacs, Sherburne, Stearns | 45 min |
| Jul 27, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Redwood, Renville, Yellow Medicine | 60 min |
| Jul 27, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs | 43 min |
| Jul 27, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Isanti, Meeker, Sherburne, Stearns, Wright | 51 min |
| Jul 27, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, McLeod, Meeker, Renville, Wright | 44 min |
| Jul 27, 6:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Anoka, Chisago, Hennepin, Isanti, Ramsey, Washington and 1 more | 54 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.