Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2005, 3:14 PM CDT for Rusk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 31 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
- Jun 5, 2005, 3:14 PM CDT (20:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2005, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Rusk County, WI
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 5, 12:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 201 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -157 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 929 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 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 KMPX 052016 TORMPX WIC107-052045- /O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0017.050605T2014Z-050605T2045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 314 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RUSK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST WISCONSIN * UNTIL 345 PM CDT * AT 313 PM CDT...RADAR WAS TRACKING TWO SEVERE STORMS WITH STRONG ROTATION. ONE WAS NEAR LADYSMITH...AND THE OTHER WAS 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF LADYSMITH...NEAR TONY. STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... GLEN FLORA... TONY... LADYSMITH... RURAL AREAS NORTH OF TONY AND LADYSMITH... HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE. LAT...LON 4564 9125 4541 9111 4547 9071 4563 9072 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 052043 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 341 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 2005 WIC107-052055- /O.EXP.KMPX.TO.W.0017.000000T0000Z-050605T2045Z/ RUSK WI- 343 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR RUSK COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 345 PM CDT... BOTH STORMS WERE MOVING OUT OF RUSK COUNTY...NORTH OF TONY AND GLEN FLORA. THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 345 PM. THE RUSK COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT REPORTS ONLY SOME SMALL BRANCHES HAVE BEEN DOWNED. LAT...LON 4564 9125 4541 9111 4547 9071 4563 9072 $$ TDK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 2:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Rusk | 47 min |
| Jun 5, 4:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Saint Croix | 42 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.