Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Watches in 2010
Tornado Watch 472
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jul 14, 2010, 9:00 AM CDT for Gogebic County, Ontonagon County, Michigan; 32 counties in Minnesota; 19 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 2010, 9:00 AM CDT (14:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2010, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 53 counties
Gogebic County, MI, Ontonagon County, MI, Anoka County, MN, Benton County, MN, Brown County, MN, Carlton County, MN, Carver County, MN, Chisago County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Pine County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Rice County, MN, Saint Louis County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Steele County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Washington County, MN, Wright County, MN, Ashland County, WI, Barron County, WI, Bayfield County, WI, Burnett County, WI, Chippewa County, WI, Douglas County, WI, Dunn County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI, Iron County, WI, Oneida County, WI, Pepin County, WI, Pierce County, WI, Polk County, WI, Price County, WI, Rusk County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI, Sawyer County, WI, Vilas County, WI, Washburn County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 30%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
35 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 9:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Carlton, Lake, Pine, Saint Louis | 48 min |
| Jul 14, 10:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Ashland, Bayfield, Burnett, Douglas, Sawyer, Washburn | 65 min |
| Jul 14, 10:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron, Polk | 52 min |
| Jul 14, 10:42 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Barron, Polk | 33 min |
| Jul 14, 11:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Ashland, Bayfield, Iron, Price, Sawyer, Washburn | 67 min |
| Jul 14, 11:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron, Rusk | 65 min |
| Jul 14, 11:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Dunn | 57 min |
| Jul 14, 11:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Lincoln, Oneida, Vilas | 45 min |
| Jul 14, 11:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Gogebic | 61 min |
| Jul 14, 12:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Rusk | 63 min |
| Jul 14, 12:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Price | 25 min |
| Jul 14, 12:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Lincoln, Oneida, Vilas | 46 min |
| Jul 14, 1:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago | 47 min |
| Jul 14, 2:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Scott | 49 min |
| Jul 14, 2:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron, Polk | 67 min |
| Jul 14, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue, Rice | 63 min |
| Jul 14, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Morrison, Pope, Stearns, Todd | 63 min |
| Jul 14, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue | 35 min |
| Jul 14, 2:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Washington | 44 min |
| Jul 14, 2:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dunn, Pierce, Saint Croix | 44 min |
| Jul 14, 2:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Morrison, Pope, Stearns, Todd | 51 min |
| Jul 14, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 65 min |
| Jul 14, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Ashland, Iron, Price, Sawyer | 51 min |
| Jul 14, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire, Pepin | 63 min |
| Jul 14, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Gogebic | 44 min |
| Jul 14, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Stearns | 42 min |
| Jul 14, 3:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Benton, Stearns | 23 min |
| Jul 14, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Eau Claire | 53 min |
| Jul 14, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Price, Sawyer | 58 min |
| Jul 14, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Meeker, Stearns | 62 min |
| Jul 14, 4:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DLH | Price, Sawyer | 117 min |
| Jul 14, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Lincoln, Marathon, Oneida | 59 min |
| Jul 14, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Price | 33 min |
| Jul 14, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Forest, Langlade, Lincoln, Marathon, Oneida, Shawano | 64 min |
| Jul 14, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Pine | 67 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 2915 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 616 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 282 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 379 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 16.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 11:43 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baraga, Delta, Dickinson, Gogebic, Houghton, Iron and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 14, 5:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Mason, Oceana | 93 min |
| Jul 13, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Kittson, Marshall, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake, Roseau | 7 hr |
| Jul 14, 1:02 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Traverse | 6 hr |
| Jul 14, 3:00 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Big Stone, Clay, Clearwater, Douglas, Grant and 14 more | 90 min |
| Jul 14, 3:50 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Cass, Clay and 15 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 14, 6:19 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Carlton, Cass and 13 more | 86 min |
| Jul 14, 8:26 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Brown, Carlton, Carver, Chisago and 21 more | 64 min |
| Jul 14, 10:29 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Winona | 2 hr |
| Jul 14, 12:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Goodhue, Hennepin and 9 more | 116 min |
| Jul 14, 2:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Faribault, Freeborn | 94 min |
| Jul 14, 2:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fillmore, Houston, Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona | 96 min |
| Jul 14, 3:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Benton, Crow Wing, Itasca, Kanabec, Kandiyohi and 5 more | 87 min |
| Jul 14, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Benton, Carlton, Chisago, Cook, Crow Wing and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 14, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Cottonwood, Dakota and 21 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 14, 6:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 8 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.