Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 2005, 5:21 PM CDT for Lyon County, Minnesota. It was in force for 24 min. 3 reports 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
- Jun 29, 2005, 5:21 PM CDT (22:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2005, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lyon County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:24 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 5:23 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 1 E Russell, MN | |
| Jun 29, 5:48 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Russell, MN | |
| Jun 29, 5:51 PM CDT | TORNADO | 4 Se Marshall, MN |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 11:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jun 29, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 318 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -355 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1058 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 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 KFSD 292222 TORFSD MNC083-292245- /O.NEW.KFSD.TO.W.0011.050629T2221Z-050629T2245Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 521 PM CDT WED JUN 29 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LYON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 545 PM CDT * AT 521 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR RUSSELL... OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MARSHALL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... LYND AROUND 530 PM CDT MARSHALL AROUND 540 PM CDT THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN LYON COUNTY. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. TAKE COVER NOW. THIS STORM IS ALSO CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL TO THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS AROUND LYND AND MARSHALL. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. LAT...LON 4435 9602 4421 9595 4439 9562 4455 9564 $$ SCHUMACHER
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KFSD 292232 SVSFSD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 531 PM CDT WED JUN 29 2005 MNC083-292245- /O.CON.KFSD.TO.W.0011.000000T0000Z-050629T2245Z/ LYON MN- 531 PM CDT WED JUN 29 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR LYON COUNTY... AT 531 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES EAST OF RUSSELL...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MARSHALL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... MARSHALL AROUND 545 PM CDT AT 532 PM CDT...LYON COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED THAT THERE WAS A FUNNEL HALF WAY TO THE GROUND NEAR HIGHWAY 23 EAST OF RUSSELL AND NORTH OF BALATON. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. TAKE COVER NOW. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. LAT...LON 4435 9602 4421 9595 4439 9562 4455 9564 $$ SCHUMACHER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 3:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Pipestone, Rock | 39 min |
| Jun 29, 4:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Murray, Nobles, Pipestone | 48 min |
| Jun 29, 6:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Jackson | 28 min |
| Jun 29, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Nobles, Rock | 27 min |
| Jun 29, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 36 min |
| Jun 29, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Murray | 52 min |
| Jun 29, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Nobles | 42 min |
| Jun 29, 5:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lyon | 34 min |
| Jun 29, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cottonwood | 44 min |
| Jun 29, 6:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Cottonwood | 25 min |
| Jun 29, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Cottonwood | 37 min |
Nearby
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.