Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2012
Tornado Warning 19, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at May 2, 2012, 10:01 PM CDT for Chippewa County, Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota. It was in force for 44 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 2, 2012, 10:01 PM CDT (03:01 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2012, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Chippewa County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 174 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:02 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 2, 10:08 PM CDT | HAIL 1.25 | 4 N Cerro Gordo, MN | |
| May 2, 10:25 PM CDT | HAIL 1.25 | Milan, MN | |
| May 2, 10:25 PM CDT | HAIL 2 | Milan, MN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2487 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
671 WFUS53 KMPX 030301 TORMPX MNC023-073-030345- /O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0019.120503T0301Z-120503T0345Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1001 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... NORTHWESTERN CHIPPEWA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 1045 PM CDT * AT 1000 PM CDT...RADAR WAS TRACKING A SEVERE STORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WAS 4 MILES NORTH OF MADISON...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BELLINGHAM...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE... MADISON... BELLINGHAM... MILAN... CERRO GORDO... 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. && LAT...LON 4513 9586 4495 9594 4501 9633 4515 9628 TIME...MOT...LOC 0301Z 272DEG 21KT 4506 9619 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown | 63 min |
| May 2, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 61 min |
| May 2, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue, Rice, Steele | 60 min |
| May 2, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Rice, Steele, Waseca | 28 min |
| May 2, 7:51 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MPX | Goodhue, Rice | 3 hr |
| May 2, 7:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Nicollet | 62 min |
| May 2, 8:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 3 hr |
| May 2, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 33 min |
| May 2, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 29 min |
| May 2, 9:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Lac qui Parle | 52 min |
| May 2, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift | 50 min |
| May 2, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope, Stevens, Swift | 48 min |
| May 2, 10:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle | 35 min |
| May 2, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope, Swift | 50 min |
| May 2, 11:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 45 min |
| May 2, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi | 59 min |
| May 3, 12:47 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Meeker, Stearns | 58 min |
| May 3, 1:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker | 55 min |
| May 3, 1:59 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Anoka, Carver, Hennepin, Sherburne, Wright | 76 min |
| May 3, 6:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Todd | 36 min |
| May 3, 6:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Morrison, Todd | 41 min |
| May 3, 7:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Morrison | 41 min |
| May 3, 7:57 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Scott | 48 min |
| May 3, 8:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Rice, Scott | 59 min |
| May 3, 9:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Wright | 45 min |
| May 3, 9:37 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Anoka, Carver, Hennepin, Ramsey | 38 min |
| May 3, 10:12 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Le Sueur | 48 min |
| May 3, 10:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Washington | 56 min |
| May 3, 10:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Washington | 30 min |
| May 3, 10:55 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Goodhue, Rice | 50 min |
| May 3, 3:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Steele, Waseca | 40 min |
| May 3, 3:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Steele | 38 min |
| May 3, 4:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Faribault | 50 min |
| May 3, 6:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Waseca | 26 min |
| May 3, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Waseca | 20 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.