Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 19, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this tornado warning at Aug 18, 2005, 1:29 PM CDT for Fillmore County, Minnesota. It was in force for 34 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
- Aug 18, 2005, 1:29 PM CDT (18:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2005, 2:03 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Fillmore County, MN
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:32 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 541 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KARX 181829
TORARX
MNC045-181900-
/O.NEW.KARX.TO.W.0019.050818T1829Z-050818T1900Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
129 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
FILLMORE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 200 PM CDT
* AT 129 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A TORNADO 5
MILES NORTHWEST OF WASHINGTON...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTH OF
ROCHESTER. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
WASHINGTON AROUND 135 PM...
COUNTY ROADS 2 AND 38 AROUND 140 PM...
FILLMORE AND COUNTY ROADS 2 AND 101 AROUND 145 PM...
CHATFIELD AROUND 155 PM...
FOUNTAIN AND PILOT MOUND AROUND 200 PM...
A TORNADO IS BEING DETECTED BY RADAR. THIS MEANS THAT A TORNADO MAY
NOT BE OCCURRING WHEN THE WARNING IS ISSUED...BUT ONE IS EXPECTED TO
DEVELOP. TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS
CARS AND MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR A STURDY BUILDING. AS A
LAST RESORT...LAY FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD.
LAT...LON 4374 9245 4380 9245 4381 9244 4383 9244
4383 9235 4384 9233 4384 9176 4371 9175
$$
BAUMGARDT3 follow-up statements
000
WWUS53 KARX 181838
SVSARX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
138 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2005
MNC045-181900-
/O.CON.KARX.TO.W.0019.000000T0000Z-050818T1900Z/
FILLMORE MN-
136 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2005
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM CDT FOR FILLMORE
COUNTY...
AT 136 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING A TORNADO 3 MILES WEST OF COUNTY ROADS 2 AND
38...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTH OF ROCHESTER. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING
EAST AT 20 MPH. A BRIEF TORNADO OCCURED IN MOWER COUNTY NEAR DEXTER
PRODUCING DAMAGE AROUND 1 PM FROM THIS STORM. THE MAIN THREAT IS IN
NORTHERN FILLMORE COUNTY...NORTH OF HIGHWAY 16.
THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
FILLMORE AND COUNTY ROADS 2 AND 101 AROUND 145 PM...
FOUNTAIN AND CHATFIELD AROUND 155 PM...
PILOT MOUND AND HIGHWAY 52 AND COUNTY 6 AROUND 200 PM...
CARS AND MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR A STURDY BUILDING. AS
A LAST RESORT...LAY FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD.
TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS
LAT...LON 4374 9245 4380 9245 4381 9244 4383 9244
4383 9235 4384 9233 4384 9176 4371 9175
$$
BAUMGARDT000
WWUS53 KARX 181855
SVSARX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
155 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2005
MNC045-181900-
/O.CON.KARX.TO.W.0019.000000T0000Z-050818T1900Z/
FILLMORE MN-
155 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2005
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM CDT FOR FILLMORE
COUNTY...
AT 155 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER CHATFIELD...OR ABOUT 12 MILES
NORTHWEST OF PRESTON. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. A BRIEF
TORNADO OCCURED IN MOWER COUNTY NEAR DEXTER PRODUCING DAMAGE AROUND
1 PM FROM THIS STORM. THE MAIN THREAT IS IN NORTHERN FILLMORE
COUNTY...NORTH OF HIGHWAY 16.
THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
ARENDAHL AND PILOT MOUND AROUND 200 PM...
CARS AND MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR A STURDY BUILDING. AS A
LAST RESORT...LAY FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD.
TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS
LAT...LON 4374 9245 4380 9245 4381 9244 4383 9244
4383 9235 4384 9233 4384 9176 4371 9175
$$
BAUMGARDT000
WWUS53 KARX 181903
SVSARX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
203 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2005
MNC045-181913-
/O.EXP.KARX.TO.W.0019.000000T0000Z-050818T1900Z/
FILLMORE MN-
203 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2005
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR FILLMORE COUNTY HAS EXPIRED...
THE LIKELIHOOD OF THIS THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING A TORNADO HAS
DIMINISHED. THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR FILLMORE COUNTY HAS
EXPIRED.
TO CALL YOUR SEVERE WEATHER REPORT DIRECTLY INTO THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE DIAL 6 0 8 7 8 2 1 8 9 4. SPECIAL THANKS TO LOCAL SPOTTERS
WHO HELPED TO ASSESS THE TORNADO THREAT WITH THIS STORM.
LAT...LON 4374 9245 4380 9245 4381 9244 4383 9244
4383 9235 4384 9233 4384 9176 4371 9175
$$
BAUMGARDTNearby
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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.