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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at May 28, 2011, 2:39 PM CDT for Carver County, Scott County, Sibley County, Minnesota. It was in force for 36 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
- May 28, 2011, 2:39 PM CDT (19:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2011, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Carver County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sibley County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:38 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 3:02 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Arlington, MN | |
| May 28, 3:16 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 5 Sw Belle Plaine, MN | REPORTED NEAR COUNTY ROADS 1 AND 169. |
| May 28, 3:19 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 5 Sw Belle Plaine, MN | REPORTED NEAR COUNTY ROADS 1 AND 169. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 2:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 50 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 918 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
551
WFUS53 KMPX 281939
TORMPX
MNC019-139-143-282015-
/O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0021.110528T1939Z-110528T2015Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
239 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN CARVER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
SOUTHWESTERN SCOTT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
EASTERN SIBLEY COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 315 PM CDT
* AT 234 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR
GAYLORD...OR ABOUT 6 MILES EAST OF WINTHROP. RADAR SHOWED THE
TORNADIC STORM MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
ARLINGTON...
GREEN ISLE...
NEW ROME...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
&&
LAT...LON 4463 9434 4463 9426 4467 9425 4475 9384
4457 9376 4448 9427
TIME...MOT...LOC 1939Z 255DEG 29KT 4457 9420
$$1 follow-up statement
251
WWUS53 KMPX 281955
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
255 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 2011
MNC019-139-143-282015-
/O.CON.KMPX.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-110528T2015Z/
CARVER MN-SCOTT MN-SIBLEY MN-
255 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 2011
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN SIBLEY...
SOUTHWESTERN SCOTT AND SOUTHWESTERN CARVER COUNTIES UNTIL 315 PM
CDT...
AT 252 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM
WAS LOCATED 5 MILES EAST OF GAYLORD...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ARLINGTON AND NEW ROME.
LAT...LON 4463 9434 4463 9426 4467 9425 4475 9384
4457 9376 4448 9427
TIME...MOT...LOC 1954Z 263DEG 30KT 4455 9409
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 1:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Nicollet, Redwood, Sibley | 7 min |
| May 28, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Nicollet, Redwood, Renville, Sibley | 34 min |
| May 28, 2:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Dakota, Le Sueur, McLeod, Rice, Scott and 1 more | 44 min |
| May 28, 3:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Carver, Le Sueur, Rice, Scott, Sibley | 39 min |
| May 28, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue, Rice, Scott | 45 min |
| May 28, 3:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue, Rice, Scott | 33 min |
| May 28, 4:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Dakota | 48 min |
| May 28, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue | 40 min |
| May 28, 4:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Kanabec, Mille Lacs | 47 min |
| May 28, 6:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Rice | 42 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.