Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2024

Tornado Warning 23, NWS Twin Cities, MN

August 5, 2024Faribault County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Aug 5, 2024, 6:36 PM CDT for Faribault County, Minnesota. It was in force for 24 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Aug 5, 2024, 6:36 PM CDT (23:36 UTC)
Expired: Aug 5, 2024, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.0 in

County Faribault County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:40 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 was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 5, 7:06 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	3 W Easton, MN	Multiple trees snapped off along highway 109. Time estimated from radar.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 5, 5:24 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 122 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 700 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

534 
WFUS53 KMPX 052336
TORMPX
MNC043-060000-
/O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0023.240805T2336Z-240806T0000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Tornado Warning
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
636 PM CDT Mon Aug 5 2024

The National Weather Service in the Twin Cities has issued a

* Tornado Warning for...
  Northwestern Faribault County in south central Minnesota...

* Until 700 PM CDT.

* At 635 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado
  was located near Amboy, or 22 miles northeast of Fairmont, moving
  east at 25 mph.

  HAZARD...Tornado and quarter size hail.

  SOURCE...Weather spotters reported funnel cloud.

  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...
  Delavan around 640 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 4379 9421 4385 9415 4385 9388 4384 9378
      4366 9391
TIME...MOT...LOC 2335Z 289DEG 23KT 4383 9412 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN

$$

Dye

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 5, 3:20 AM CDT	Flood Watch	MPX	Dakota, Goodhue, Rice	18 hr
Aug 5, 4:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Yellow Medicine	37 min
Aug 5, 5:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Watonwan	26 min
Aug 5, 5:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Watonwan	26 min
Aug 5, 5:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Watonwan	37 min
Aug 5, 5:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Nicollet	31 min
Aug 5, 6:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Waseca	25 min
Aug 5, 6:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Faribault	25 min
Aug 5, 6:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Waseca	23 min
Aug 5, 6:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	MPX	Steele, Waseca	36 min
Aug 5, 6:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Dakota	36 min
Aug 5, 6:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Faribault, Freeborn	31 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Minnesota, 2024 Every tornado warning in 2024 Tornadoes in 2024

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.