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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Twin Cities, MN

May 16, 2015Chippewa County, Swift County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at May 16, 2015, 5:52 PM CDT for Chippewa County, Swift County, Minnesota. It was in force for 23 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, 5:52 PM CDT (22:52 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 2015, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Observed
Hail: 1.0 in

Counties Chippewa County, MN, Swift 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 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 154 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 853 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 166 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

439 
WFUS53 KMPX 162252
TORMPX
MNC023-151-162315-
/O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0006.150516T2252Z-150516T2315Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
552 PM CDT SAT MAY 16 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL CHIPPEWA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
  SOUTHEASTERN SWIFT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 551 PM CDT...A CONFIRMED TORNADO WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTH OF DE
  GRAFF...OR 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF MONTEVIDEO...MOVING NORTH AT 30
  MPH.

  HAZARD...DAMAGING TORNADO AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...WEATHER SPOTTERS CONFIRMED TORNADO. 

  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 TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
  NORTH CENTRAL CHIPPEWA AND SOUTHEASTERN SWIFT COUNTIES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TO REPEAT...A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND. 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 4508 9547 4510 9559 4525 9560 4525 9541
TIME...MOT...LOC 2251Z 198DEG 24KT 4514 9554 

TORNADO...OBSERVED
HAIL...1.00IN

$$

CLF

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 16, 12:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Kandiyohi	38 min
May 16, 3:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Yellow Medicine	32 min
May 16, 4:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Chippewa	29 min
May 16, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Yellow Medicine	44 min
May 16, 4:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Lac qui Parle	16 min
May 16, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Lac qui Parle	31 min
May 16, 5:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Swift	25 min
May 16, 5:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Stevens	33 min
May 16, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa	25 min
May 16, 5:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	MPX	Swift	36 min
May 16, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Swift	17 min
May 16, 6:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Swift	34 min
May 16, 6:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Renville	39 min
May 16, 6:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Pope, Swift	34 min
May 16, 6:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Meeker	36 min

Nearby

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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.