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Tornado Watch 194
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 9, 2022, 2:50 PM CDT for 38 counties in Minnesota; 14 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 9, 2022, 2:50 PM CDT (19:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2022, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 52 counties
Aitkin County, MN, Anoka County, MN, Benton County, MN, Blue Earth County, MN, Carver County, MN, Chisago County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Dodge County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Fillmore County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Houston County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Mower County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Olmsted County, MN, Pine County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Rice County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Steele County, MN, Wabasha County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Washington County, MN, Winona County, MN, Wright County, MN, Barron County, WI, Buffalo County, WI, Burnett County, WI, Chippewa County, WI, Dunn County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI, Pepin County, WI, Pierce County, WI, Polk County, WI, Rusk County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI, Sawyer County, WI, Trempealeau County, WI, Washburn County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 40%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
37 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Morrison, Stearns | 34 min |
| May 9, 4:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Benton, Morrison | 6 min |
| May 9, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin, Sherburne, Wright | 35 min |
| May 9, 4:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Benton, Mille Lacs, Sherburne | 33 min |
| May 9, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Rice | 26 min |
| May 9, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kanabec, Mille Lacs | 32 min |
| May 9, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Chisago, Isanti | 42 min |
| May 9, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Ramsey, Washington | 35 min |
| May 9, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Washington | 45 min |
| May 9, 5:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Anoka, Chisago, Isanti | 25 min |
| May 9, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue | 33 min |
| May 9, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Washington | 35 min |
| May 9, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 36 min |
| May 9, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pierce, Saint Croix | 45 min |
| May 9, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago | 41 min |
| May 9, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Polk, Saint Croix | 33 min |
| May 9, 6:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dunn | 37 min |
| May 9, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Burnett, Washburn | 37 min |
| May 9, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 42 min |
| May 9, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Wabasha | 35 min |
| May 9, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn, Saint Croix | 33 min |
| May 9, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dunn, Pepin, Pierce | 37 min |
| May 9, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Wabasha | 47 min |
| May 9, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn, Eau Claire, Pepin, Pierce | 23 min |
| May 9, 7:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dunn | 36 min |
| May 9, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona | 56 min |
| May 9, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Fillmore, Mower | 64 min |
| May 9, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn, Eau Claire, Pepin | 45 min |
| May 9, 7:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Dunn | 18 min |
| May 9, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Buffalo | 46 min |
| May 9, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Buffalo, Clark, Jackson, Trempealeau | 57 min |
| May 9, 8:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Eau Claire | 37 min |
| May 9, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona | 61 min |
| May 9, 8:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Buffalo, Trempealeau | 32 min |
| May 9, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Fillmore | 47 min |
| May 9, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Eau Claire | 31 min |
| May 9, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Winona | 45 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 35 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
- 892 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 364 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 413 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 5:12 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Big Stone, Chippewa, Douglas, Grant, Kandiyohi and 19 more | 63 min |
| May 9, 7:14 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Chippewa, Douglas, Grant, Hennepin and 17 more | 91 min |
| May 9, 7:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Carver, Chisago, Crow Wing and 22 more | 4 hr |
| May 9, 9:16 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Chisago, Hennepin, Isanti, Kanabec and 7 more | 59 min |
| May 9, 9:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Washington | 3 hr |
| May 9, 1:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood and 30 more | 96 min |
| May 9, 5:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chisago, Dakota, Dodge, Goodhue, Olmsted, Pine and 3 more | 84 min |
| May 9, 6:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Itasca, Koochiching | 90 min |
| May 9, 11:58 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Iron, Sawyer, Vilas | 62 min |
| May 9, 6:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crawford, Grant | 88 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.