Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2010
Tornado Warning 82, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 27, 2010, 5:14 PM CDT for Benton County, Morrison County, Stearns County, Minnesota. It was in force for 46 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, 5:14 PM CDT (22:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2010, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Benton County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Stearns County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:16 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 123 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.
878 WFUS53 KMPX 272214 TORMPX MNC009-097-145-272300- /O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0082.100727T2214Z-100727T2300Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 514 PM CDT TUE JUL 27 2010 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN MORRISON COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA... NORTH CENTRAL STEARNS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA... NORTHWESTERN BENTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 512 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WAS 3 MILES NORTH OF UPSALA...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE... SOBIESKI... ELMDALE... BOWLES... ROYALTON... RICE... BOWLUS... OPOLE... 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 4588 9410 4569 9417 4577 9465 4595 9464 TIME...MOT...LOC 2213Z 279DEG 24KT 4586 9457 $$
1 follow-up statement
590 WWUS53 KMPX 272226 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 526 PM CDT TUE JUL 27 2010 MNC009-097-145-272300- /O.CON.KMPX.TO.W.0082.000000T0000Z-100727T2300Z/ MORRISON MN-STEARNS MN-BENTON MN- 526 PM CDT TUE JUL 27 2010 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWESTERN BENTON... NORTH CENTRAL STEARNS AND SOUTHWESTERN MORRISON COUNTIES UNTIL 600 PM CDT... AT 520 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A WALL CLOUD NEAR ELMDALE...OR 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LITTLE FALLS...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BOWLUS...ROYALTON...RICE...AND OPOLE. LAT...LON 4588 9410 4569 9417 4577 9465 4595 9464 TIME...MOT...LOC 2225Z 279DEG 24KT 4585 9446 $$
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, 4:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope, Stevens | 41 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, 5:16 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 |
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.