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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 17, 2012, 6:39 PM CDT for Chippewa County, Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota. It was in force for 36 min. 2 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
- Jun 17, 2012, 6:39 PM CDT (23:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2012, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 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 23:39 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 6:49 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 3 Ne Dawson, MN | FUNNEL HALFWAY TO THE GROUND. |
| Jun 17, 7:00 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Milan, MN |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 1861 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
835 WFUS53 KMPX 172339 TORMPX MNC023-073-180015- /O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0028.120617T2339Z-120618T0015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 639 PM CDT SUN JUN 17 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... NORTHWESTERN CHIPPEWA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 635 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WAS NEAR DAWSON...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTH OF PROVIDENCE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE... WATSON... MILAN... DAWSON... 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. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN MINNESOTA. && LAT...LON 4514 9603 4515 9563 4487 9597 4496 9613 TIME...MOT...LOC 2339Z 219DEG 25KT 4495 9602 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 10:22 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Brown, Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Redwood, Swift, Yellow Medicine | 53 min |
| Jun 17, 5:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Swift | 43 min |
| Jun 17, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope, Stevens, Swift | 67 min |
| Jun 17, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle | 47 min |
| Jun 17, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Pope, Swift | 34 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.