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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 7, 2005Blue Earth County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 2005, 6:29 PM CDT for Blue Earth 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: Jun 7, 2005, 6:29 PM CDT (23:29 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2005, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Blue Earth County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:29 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
Jun 7, 2:35 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 103 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KMPX 072329
TORMPX
MNC013-080000-
/O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0025.050607T2329Z-050608T0000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
629 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BLUE EARTH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 624 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO SOUTHWEST OF         
  PEMBERTON...OR ABOUT 18 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MANKATO...MOVING        
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  PEMBERTON...
  MAPLETON... 

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 4401 9398 4385 9397 4385 9378 4404 9378

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KMPX 072358
SVSMPX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
657 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005

MNC013-080010-
/O.EXP.KMPX.TO.W.0025.000000T0000Z-050608T0000Z/
BLUE EARTH MN-
657 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR BLUE EARTH COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 700 PM
CDT...

THE THUNDERSTORM HAD WEAKENED AND MOVED NORTH OUT OF THE AREA.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING 
FOR SOUTHERN MINNESOTA AND NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN.

LAT...LON 4401 9398 4385 9397 4385 9378 4404 9378

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 4:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Pope, Stevens, Swift	59 min
Jun 7, 4:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Renville, Yellow Medicine	47 min
Jun 7, 4:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Redwood	35 min
Jun 7, 5:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Brown	36 min
Jun 7, 5:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Redwood, Renville	30 min
Jun 7, 5:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Sibley	52 min
Jun 7, 7:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Ramsey, Washington	39 min
Jun 7, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Goodhue	55 min
Jun 7, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Goodhue	66 min
Jun 7, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Faribault	54 min
Jun 7, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Goodhue	61 min
Jun 7, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Rice, Steele	70 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.