Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 24, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 2005, 6:05 PM CDT for Chippewa County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 40 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, 6:05 PM CDT (23:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2005, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Chippewa County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:05 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, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 167 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 072305 TORMPX WIC017-072345- /O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0024.050607T2305Z-050607T2345Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 605 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CHIPPEWA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 603 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO...7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BLOOMER...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHIPPEWA FALLS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BLOOMER... CHIPPEWA FALLS... JIM FALLS... TILDEN... THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4514 9164 4495 9164 4486 9132 4504 9120 $$
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, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dunn | 45 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, 6:13 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.