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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Apr 24, 2016, 8:23 PM CDT for Rice County, Steele County, Waseca County, Minnesota. It was in force for 13 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
- Apr 24, 2016, 8:23 PM CDT (01:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2016, 8:36 PM CDT
- In force
- 13 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Observed
- Hail
- 0.75 in
Counties Rice County, MN, Steele County, MN, Waseca County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:26 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 866 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 388 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
354
WFUS53 KMPX 250123
TORMPX
MNC131-147-161-250145-
/O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0003.160425T0123Z-160425T0145Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
823 PM CDT SUN APR 24 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN STEELE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
SOUTHWESTERN RICE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
NORTHEASTERN WASECA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 845 PM CDT
* AT 821 PM CDT...A CONFIRMED TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR WASECA...OR
13 MILES WEST OF OWATONNA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
HAZARD...DAMAGING TORNADO.
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.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
MORRISTOWN AROUND 835 PM CDT.
OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE WASECA
AIRPORT AND DEERFIELD.
THIS INCLUDES U.S. HIGHWAY 14 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 157 AND 166.
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 4406 9357 4426 9351 4420 9328 4401 9343
TIME...MOT...LOC 0121Z 202DEG 34KT 4409 9349
TORNADO...OBSERVED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
ADL1 follow-up statement
264
WWUS53 KMPX 250136
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
836 PM CDT SUN APR 24 2016
MNC131-147-161-250144-
/O.CAN.KMPX.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-160425T0145Z/
STEELE MN-RICE MN-WASECA MN-
836 PM CDT SUN APR 24 2016
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN STEELE...SOUTHWESTERN RICE
AND NORTHEASTERN WASECA COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND HAVE EXITED THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS
BEEN CANCELLED.
LAT...LON 4406 9357 4426 9351 4420 9328 4401 9343
TIME...MOT...LOC 0132Z 202DEG 34KT 4421 9342
$$
ADLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 7:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Blue Earth, Martin | 23 min |
| Apr 24, 7:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Brown, Watonwan | 34 min |
| Apr 24, 7:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Faribault, Nicollet | 47 min |
| Apr 24, 8:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Freeborn, Le Sueur, Steele, Waseca | 32 min |
| Apr 24, 8:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Steele | 16 min |
| Apr 24, 8:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Goodhue, Rice | 24 min |
| Apr 24, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue | 28 min |
| Apr 24, 10:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Martin, Watonwan | 40 min |
| Apr 24, 10:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Martin, Watonwan | 34 min |
| Apr 25, 8:04 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Hennepin | 41 min |
| Apr 25, 4:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Le Sueur | 33 min |
| Apr 25, 5:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Waseca | 48 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.