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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 10, 2011, 8:52 PM CDT for Chippewa County, Renville County, Minnesota. It was in force for 38 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 10, 2011, 8:52 PM CDT (01:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2011, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Chippewa County, MN, Renville County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 8:55 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Sacred Heart, MN | SMALL BRANCHES DOWN |
| Jul 10, 9:15 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Renville, MN | POWER OUT |
| Jul 10, 9:24 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 64 | Olivia, MN | OVL AIRPORT AWOS ESTIMATED TIME. |
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 10, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 1401 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1316 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
940 WFUS53 KMPX 110152 TORMPX MNC023-129-110230- /O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0036.110711T0152Z-110711T0230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 852 PM CDT SUN JUL 10 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL CHIPPEWA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... NORTHWESTERN RENVILLE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 847 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF MINNESOTA FALLS. RADAR SHOWED THE TORNADIC STORM MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE... OLIVIA... MINNESOTA FALLS... SACRED HEART... RENVILLE... DANUBE... BIRD ISLAND... 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. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. && LAT...LON 4489 9552 4489 9485 4467 9488 4480 9552 TIME...MOT...LOC 0152Z 272DEG 35KT 4485 9540 $$
1 follow-up statement
005 WWUS53 KMPX 110210 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 910 PM CDT SUN JUL 10 2011 MNC023-110224- /O.CAN.KMPX.TO.W.0036.000000T0000Z-110711T0230Z/ CHIPPEWA MN- 910 PM CDT SUN JUL 10 2011 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL CHIPPEWA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA IS CANCELLED... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES. LAT...LON 4477 9539 4489 9540 4489 9485 4467 9488 TIME...MOT...LOC 0209Z 272DEG 35KT 4484 9517 $$ MNC129-110230- /O.CON.KMPX.TO.W.0036.000000T0000Z-110711T0230Z/ RENVILLE MN- 910 PM CDT SUN JUL 10 2011 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL RENVILLE COUNTY UNTIL 930 PM CDT... AT 906 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR RENVILLE...OR 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF OLIVIA...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. A TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC WEST OF SACRED HEART AT ROUGHLY 850 PM CDT. THIS STORM CONTINUES TO SHOW ROTATION. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... OLIVIA...DANUBE AND BIRD ISLAND. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES. && LAT...LON 4477 9539 4489 9540 4489 9485 4467 9488 TIME...MOT...LOC 0209Z 272DEG 35KT 4484 9517 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Stevens, Swift | 62 min |
| Jul 10, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Pope, Renville, Swift and 1 more | 50 min |
| Jul 10, 7:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Pope, Stearns | 39 min |
| Jul 10, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle | 35 min |
| Jul 10, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope, Stearns, Todd | 63 min |
| Jul 10, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 57 min |
| Jul 10, 7:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Swift | 33 min |
| Jul 10, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Renville, Yellow Medicine | 56 min |
| Jul 10, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker, Stearns | 64 min |
| Jul 10, 8:24 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MPX | Benton, Douglas, Kandiyohi, Morrison, Pope, Sherburne and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 10, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 46 min |
| Jul 10, 8:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker | 24 min |
| Jul 10, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Redwood, Renville, Yellow Medicine | 65 min |
| Jul 10, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 30 min |
| Jul 10, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker, Sherburne, Stearns, Wright | 54 min |
| Jul 10, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, McLeod, Nicollet, Redwood, Renville, Sibley | 55 min |
| Jul 10, 9:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Freeborn, Le Sueur, Martin, Rice and 3 more | 75 min |
| Jul 10, 9:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Benton | 42 min |
| Jul 10, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Carver, Hennepin, Sherburne, Wright | 53 min |
| Jul 10, 9:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Dakota, Ramsey, Scott, Washington | 74 min |
| Jul 10, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Le Sueur, McLeod, Nicollet, Scott and 2 more | 66 min |
| Jul 10, 10:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | McLeod, Sibley | 23 min |
| Jul 10, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Chisago, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Washington | 58 min |
| Jul 10, 10:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Carver, Le Sueur, Rice, Scott, Steele and 1 more | 57 min |
| Jul 10, 11:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn, Martin | 58 min |
| Jul 10, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue, Rice, Steele | 47 min |
| Jul 10, 11:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue | 51 min |
| Jul 11, 1:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Faribault, Martin | 56 min |
| Jul 11, 2:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn | 64 min |
| Jul 11, 3:20 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MPX | Martin | 3 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.