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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 2016, 4:42 PM CDT for Le Sueur County, Waseca County, Minnesota. It was in force for 19 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, 4:42 PM CDT (21:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2016, 5:01 PM CDT
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
Counties Le Sueur County, MN, Waseca County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:43 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 71 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.
030
WFUS53 KMPX 142142
TORMPX
MNC079-161-142215-
/O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0014.160614T2142Z-160614T2215Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
442 PM CDT TUE JUN 14 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN WASECA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
SOUTHEASTERN LE SUEUR COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 515 PM CDT
* AT 441 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED OVER SMITHS MILL...OR 10 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 DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
ELYSIAN AROUND 455 PM CDT.
WATERVILLE AROUND 505 PM CDT.
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 9377 4423 9377 4433 9353 4432 9352
4418 9353
TIME...MOT...LOC 2141Z 243DEG 24KT 4417 9378
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
BORGHOFF1 follow-up statement
932
WWUS53 KMPX 142201
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
501 PM CDT TUE JUN 14 2016
MNC079-161-142211-
/O.CAN.KMPX.TO.W.0014.000000T0000Z-160614T2215Z/
WASECA MN-LE SUEUR MN-
501 PM CDT TUE JUN 14 2016
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN WASECA AND SOUTHEASTERN LE
SUEUR COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
THE TORNADO THREAT HAS DIMINISHED AND THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN
CANCELLED. HOWEVER...DAMAGING WINDS REMAIN LIKELY AND A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL
MINNESOTA.
LAT...LON 4412 9377 4423 9377 4433 9353 4432 9352
4418 9353
TIME...MOT...LOC 2158Z 243DEG 24KT 4423 9361
$$
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, 4:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth | 32 min |
| Jun 14, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn, Le Sueur, Steele, Waseca | 57 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.