Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 2005, 6:20 PM CDT for Cottonwood County, Minnesota. It was in force for 25 min. 2 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, 6:20 PM CDT (23:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2005, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cottonwood County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:23 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, 6:24 PM CDT | TORNADO | 7 Nw Windom, MN | TORNADO HIT FARMSTEAD |
| Jun 29, 6:35 PM CDT | TORNADO | 2 S Jeffers, 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, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 157 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 292321 TORFSD MNC033-292345- /O.NEW.KFSD.TO.W.0013.050629T2320Z-050629T2345Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 620 PM CDT WED JUN 29 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... COTTONWOOD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 620 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JEFFERS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... DELFT AROUND 625 PM CDT AT 618 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EMPLOYEE 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JEFFERS. A TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING NOW. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE NOT SAFE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. LAT...LON 4402 9540 4389 9538 4397 9487 4411 9486 $$ SCHUMACHER
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KFSD 292326 SVSFSD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 624 PM CDT WED JUN 29 2005 MNC033-292345- /O.CON.KFSD.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-050629T2345Z/ COTTONWOOD MN- 624 PM CDT WED JUN 29 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR COTTONWOOD COUNTY... AT 624 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF STORDEN...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF WINDOM...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... DELFT AROUND 635 PM CDT AT 624 PM CDT...A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EMPLOYEE REPORTED A TORNADO 7 MILES OF WINDOM. THE TORNADO HAS CAUSED DAMAGE TO A FARMSTEAD NORTHWEST OF WINDOM. A TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING NOW. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE NOT SAFE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. ALAT...LON 4402 9540 4389 9538 4397 9487 4411 9486 $$ SCHUMACHER
000 WWUS53 KFSD 292333 SVSFSD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 632 PM CDT WED JUN 29 2005 MNC033-292345- /O.CON.KFSD.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-050629T2345Z/ COTTONWOOD MN- 632 PM CDT WED JUN 29 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR COTTONWOOD COUNTY... AT 632 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 7 MILES WEST OF DELFT...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF WINDOM...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... DELFT AROUND 640 PM CDT COTTONWOOD COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT HAS REPORTED TWO FUNNEL CLOUDS AT 627 PM CDT. THE FIRST FUNNEL CLOUD WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF STORDEN. A SECOND FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED 6 MILES WEST OF WINDOM. A TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING NOW. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE NOT SAFE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. LAT...LON 4402 9540 4389 9538 4397 9487 4411 9486 $$ 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, 5:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lyon | 24 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, 6:39 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.