Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Watches in 2019
Tornado Watch 524
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jul 19, 2019, 2:41 PM CDT for 40 counties in Minnesota; 17 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 19, 2019, 2:41 PM CDT (19:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2019, 9:06 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 57 counties
Aitkin County, MN, Anoka County, MN, Benton County, MN, Big Stone County, MN, Carlton County, MN, Carver County, MN, Cass County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Chisago County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Grant County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pine County, MN, Pope County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Renville County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Todd County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Washington County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Wright County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN, Ashland County, WI, Barron County, WI, Bayfield County, WI, Burnett County, WI, Chippewa County, WI, Douglas County, WI, Dunn County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI, Iron County, WI, Pepin County, WI, Pierce County, WI, Polk County, WI, Price County, WI, Rusk County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI, Sawyer County, WI, Washburn County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 50%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 80%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 50%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 70%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 50%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
29 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 2:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Todd | 36 min |
| Jul 19, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Pine | 47 min |
| Jul 19, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison, Todd | 55 min |
| Jul 19, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Crow Wing | 38 min |
| Jul 19, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Mille Lacs, Morrison | 49 min |
| Jul 19, 3:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Morrison, Todd | 44 min |
| Jul 19, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kanabec, Mille Lacs | 48 min |
| Jul 19, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 45 min |
| Jul 19, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Burnett, Douglas, Sawyer, Washburn | 43 min |
| Jul 19, 3:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kanabec | 36 min |
| Jul 19, 4:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Morrison | 28 min |
| Jul 19, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Pine | 44 min |
| Jul 19, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Sawyer, Washburn | 31 min |
| Jul 19, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago | 42 min |
| Jul 19, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago, Isanti | 27 min |
| Jul 19, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Sawyer | 33 min |
| Jul 19, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Pine | 32 min |
| Jul 19, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Isanti, Mille Lacs, Sherburne | 30 min |
| Jul 19, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago | 54 min |
| Jul 19, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago, Isanti | 30 min |
| Jul 19, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rusk | 35 min |
| Jul 19, 5:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Barron, Polk | 47 min |
| Jul 19, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Price, Sawyer | 61 min |
| Jul 19, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron, Chippewa, Dunn, Polk, Rusk, Saint Croix | 62 min |
| Jul 19, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago | 45 min |
| Jul 19, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Ashland, Iron, Price, Sawyer | 57 min |
| Jul 19, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 56 min |
| Jul 19, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron, Dunn, Polk, Saint Croix | 47 min |
| Jul 19, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Price | 30 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 848 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1163 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.9
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 7:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona | 84 min |
| Jul 18, 10:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Houston | 2 hr |
| Jul 19, 11:06 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Meeker, Pope and 3 more | 114 min |
| Jul 19, 1:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago, Douglas and 18 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 3:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Pine | 2 hr |
| Jul 19, 6:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Goodhue, Hennepin and 8 more | 97 min |
| Jul 19, 5:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Calumet, Chippewa, Clark, Langlade, Lincoln and 17 more | 90 min |
| Jul 19, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Calumet, Clark, Door, Florence, Forest and 18 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Minnesota, 2019Tornado Watches in Wisconsin, 2019Every tornado watch in 2019
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.