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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at May 16, 2015, 7:44 PM CDT for Douglas County, Pope County, Minnesota. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 2015, 7:44 PM CDT (00:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2015, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.0 in
Counties Douglas County, MN, Pope County, MN
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 16, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 440 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1055 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 234 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 286 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 11.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
625
WFUS53 KMPX 170044
TORMPX
MNC041-121-170115-
/O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0013.150517T0044Z-150517T0115Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
744 PM CDT SAT MAY 16 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN POPE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
SOUTHEASTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 815 PM CDT
* AT 744 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER VILLARD...OR 15 MILES SOUTH OF
ALEXANDRIA...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED FUNNEL CLOUDS AND BRIEF
TORNADOES.
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 BE NEAR...
ALEXANDRIA AND OSAKIS AROUND 815 PM CDT.
OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE
GLENWOOD AIRPORT...VILLARD...NELSON...FORADA... GROVE LAKE AND
WESTPORT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 4593 9514 4574 9513 4561 9515 4561 9539
4594 9544
TIME...MOT...LOC 0044Z 181DEG 18KT 4569 9526
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...0.00IN
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker, Renville | 27 min |
| May 16, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | McLeod, Meeker, Renville | 30 min |
| May 16, 7:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Swift | 26 min |
| May 16, 7:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Meeker | 25 min |
| May 16, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Meeker | 35 min |
| May 16, 8:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Stearns | 50 min |
| May 16, 8:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Meeker, Stearns | 35 min |
| May 16, 9:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Carver, Sherburne, Wright | 39 min |
| May 16, 10:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Sherburne, Wright | 2 hr |
| May 17, 7:27 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Renville | 33 min |
| May 17, 7:55 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chippewa, Renville, Swift | 35 min |
| May 17, 9:38 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Douglas, Pope, Stevens, Swift, Todd | 52 min |
| May 17, 1:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Faribault | 24 min |
| May 17, 2:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Stearns | 27 min |
| May 17, 2:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chippewa | 23 min |
| May 17, 2:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Meeker | 30 min |
| May 17, 2:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Waseca | 27 min |
| May 17, 2:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Faribault | 30 min |
| May 17, 2:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Waseca | 26 min |
| May 17, 3:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Meeker | 29 min |
| May 17, 3:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Waseca | 37 min |
| May 17, 3:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Benton | 29 min |
| May 17, 3:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Meeker | 28 min |
| May 17, 3:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Benton | 36 min |
| May 17, 3:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Sherburne | 33 min |
| May 17, 3:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Meeker | 36 min |
| May 17, 4:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Dakota | 27 min |
| May 17, 4:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Mille Lacs | 33 min |
| May 17, 4:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Sherburne | 28 min |
| May 17, 4:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Sherburne | 32 min |
| May 17, 5:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Goodhue | 34 min |
| May 17, 6:16 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Dakota, Douglas and 26 more | 10 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.