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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Twin Cities, MN

March 30, 2005Goodhue County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2005, 2:59 PM CST for Goodhue County, Minnesota. 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: Mar 30, 2005, 2:59 PM CST (20:59 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2005, 3:30 PM CST
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Goodhue County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:59 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.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 30, 2:15 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 354 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: 1316 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 140 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 316 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KMPX 302100
TORMPX
MNC049-302130-
/O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0002.050330T2059Z-050330T2130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
259 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  GOODHUE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 330 PM CST

* AT 255 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO...NEAR GOODHUE...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTH OF RED WING...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  GOODHUE.
  HAY CREEK
  FRONTENAC 
 
WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY.

LAT...LON 4437 9274 4426 9259 4445 9250 4448 9235
      4456 9258

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KMPX 302128
SVSMPX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
327 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005

MNC049-302137-
/O.EXP.KMPX.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-050330T2130Z/
GOODHUE MN-
327 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN GOODHUE COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 330
PM CST...

ALTHOUGH THE TORNADO WARNING HAS EXPIRED...THE THUNDERSTORM REMAINS 
SEVERE AND CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. A 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WILL BE ISSUED SHORTLY TO REPLACE THE 
TORNADO WARNING.

LAT...LON 4437 9274 4426 9259 4445 9250 4448 9235
      4456 9258

$$

KAT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 30, 4:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Martin	25 min
Mar 30, 5:06 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Martin, Watonwan	28 min
Mar 30, 6:46 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	McLeod, Meeker	44 min
Mar 30, 12:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Steele	36 min
Mar 30, 1:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Goodhue	40 min
Mar 30, 2:28 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MPX	Goodhue	32 min
Mar 30, 3:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Goodhue	64 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.