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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 2005, 5:30 PM CDT for Dunn County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 45 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 7, 2005, 5:30 PM CDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2005, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Dunn County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:31 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 7, 2:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 677 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -219 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1465 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 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 072230 TORMPX WIC033-072315- /O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0023.050607T2230Z-050607T2315Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 530 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DUNN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 526 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD JUST NORTHEAST OF WHEELER...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTH OF MENOMONIE...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... COLFAX... SAND CREEK... TAINTER LAKE... IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 4515 9197 4498 9194 4499 9166 4520 9167 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 8:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Saint Croix | 45 min |
| Jun 7, 8:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pierce | 34 min |
| Jun 7, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Polk | 43 min |
| Jun 7, 4:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron | 53 min |
| Jun 7, 4:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Barron | 27 min |
| Jun 7, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn | 48 min |
| Jun 7, 5:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dunn | 25 min |
| Jun 7, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Barron | 35 min |
| Jun 7, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pierce | 66 min |
| Jun 7, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rusk | 55 min |
| Jun 7, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 67 min |
| Jun 7, 6:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 40 min |
| Jun 7, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron | 50 min |
| Jun 7, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn | 28 min |
| Jun 7, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rusk | 35 min |
| Jun 7, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Eau Claire | 57 min |
| Jun 7, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 30 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.