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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Mar 31, 2014, 4:58 PM CDT for Chippewa County, Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota. It was in force for 17 min. 1 report 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
- Mar 31, 2014, 4:58 PM CDT (21:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2014, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
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 21:58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 5:02 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 3 Nw Watson, MN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 1860 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 335 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
664
WFUS53 KMPX 312158
TORMPX
MNC023-073-312215-
/O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0003.140331T2158Z-140331T2215Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
458 PM CDT MON MAR 31 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
WEST CENTRAL CHIPPEWA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
EAST CENTRAL LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 515 PM CDT
* AT 454 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR LAC QUI PARLE STATE PARK...AND MOVING
NORTHWEST AT 25 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE IS
LIKELY.
* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EAST CENTRAL
LAC QUI PARLE AND WEST CENTRAL CHIPPEWA COUNTIES.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 4509 9599 4511 9581 4494 9576 4494 9588
TIME...MOT...LOC 2159Z 156DEG 24KT 4501 9587
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$1 follow-up statement
198
WWUS53 KMPX 312210
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
510 PM CDT MON MAR 31 2014
MNC023-073-312215-
/O.CON.KMPX.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-140331T2215Z/
LAC QUI PARLE MN-CHIPPEWA MN-
510 PM CDT MON MAR 31 2014
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WEST CENTRAL CHIPPEWA AND
EAST CENTRAL LAC QUI PARLE COUNTIES IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA UNTIL
515 PM CDT...
AT 503 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED NEAR LAC QUI PARLE STATE PARK...AND MOVING NORTHWEST AT
30 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE IS
LIKELY.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EXTREME WESTERN CHIPPEWA COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 4509 9599 4511 9581 4502 9580 4498 9590
TIME...MOT...LOC 2209Z 156DEG 24KT 4507 9591
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 4:06 AM CDT | Blizzard Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Douglas, Lac qui Parle, Pope, Stevens, Swift and 1 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 31, 4:06 AM CDT | Winter Weather Advisory | MPX | Chippewa, Douglas, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Meeker, Morrison and 6 more | 27 hr |
| Mar 31, 4:17 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Faribault, Freeborn, Le Sueur, McLeod and 10 more | 29 hr |
| Mar 31, 3:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 26 min |
| Mar 31, 4:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 17 min |
| Mar 31, 4:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle | 20 min |
| Mar 31, 4:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chippewa | 27 min |
| Mar 31, 5:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Kandiyohi | 23 min |
| Mar 31, 5:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Sibley | 24 min |
| Mar 31, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sibley | 21 min |
| Mar 31, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod | 20 min |
| Mar 31, 6:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Steele | 39 min |
| Mar 31, 6:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Meeker | 36 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.