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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 2016, 4:28 PM CDT for Blue Earth County, Minnesota. It was in force for 32 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
- Jun 14, 2016, 4:28 PM CDT (21:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2016, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
County Blue Earth County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 14, 2:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -188 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 566 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
901
WFUS53 KMPX 142128
TORMPX
MNC013-142200-
/O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0013.160614T2128Z-160614T2200Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
428 PM CDT TUE JUN 14 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN BLUE EARTH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 500 PM CDT
* AT 427 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED OVER EAGLE LAKE...OR NEAR MANKATO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
20 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 BE NEAR...
MADISON LAKE AROUND 450 PM CDT.
OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE
MANKATO AIRPORT.
THIS INCLUDES U.S. HIGHWAY 14 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 135 AND 143.
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 4412 9398 4424 9390 4424 9378 4423 9377
4414 9377 4409 9390
TIME...MOT...LOC 2127Z 225DEG 17KT 4414 9391
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
BORGHOFF2 follow-up statements
110
WWUS53 KMPX 142139
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
439 PM CDT TUE JUN 14 2016
MNC013-142200-
/O.CON.KMPX.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-160614T2200Z/
BLUE EARTH MN-
439 PM CDT TUE JUN 14 2016
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN BLUE EARTH COUNTY...
AT 439 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED OVER MADISON LAKE...OR 9 MILES EAST OF MANKATO...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE IS
LIKELY.
THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
NORTHEASTERN BLUE EARTH COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A MOBILE
HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND
PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 4416 9387 4423 9377 4414 9377 4411 9384
TIME...MOT...LOC 2139Z 243DEG 24KT 4416 9380
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
BORGHOFF555
WWUS53 KMPX 142157
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
457 PM CDT TUE JUN 14 2016
MNC013-142207-
/O.EXP.KMPX.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-160614T2200Z/
BLUE EARTH MN-
457 PM CDT TUE JUN 14 2016
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL BLUE EARTH COUNTY WILL EXPIRE
AT 500 PM CDT...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL
MINNESOTA.
LAT...LON 4416 9387 4423 9377 4414 9377 4411 9384
TIME...MOT...LOC 2155Z 225DEG 17KT 4416 9380
$$
BORGHOFFThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 8:07 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Martin | 53 min |
| Jun 14, 9:39 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Blue Earth | 36 min |
| Jun 14, 10:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Freeborn, Goodhue, Martin, Steele and 2 more | 12 hr |
| Jun 14, 11:19 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Waseca | 41 min |
| Jun 14, 2:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Watonwan | 42 min |
| Jun 14, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Martin, Watonwan | 46 min |
| Jun 14, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Redwood | 54 min |
| Jun 14, 3:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth | 46 min |
| Jun 14, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth | 38 min |
| Jun 14, 3:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Watonwan | 4 hr |
| Jun 14, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault | 56 min |
| Jun 14, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Nicollet, Renville, Sibley | 35 min |
| Jun 14, 4:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Rice | 41 min |
| Jun 14, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Nicollet | 48 min |
| Jun 14, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn, Le Sueur, Steele, Waseca | 57 min |
| Jun 14, 4:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Waseca | 19 min |
| Jun 14, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice | 49 min |
| Jun 14, 5:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Blue Earth, Le Sueur | 22 min |
| Jun 14, 5:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Nicollet | 5 hr |
| Jun 14, 5:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Rice, Scott | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 5:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Anoka, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Washington | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 6:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue | 37 min |
| Jun 14, 6:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Goodhue | 3 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.