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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 11, 2005Barron County, Wisconsin

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2005, 3:11 PM CDT for Barron County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 49 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 11, 2005, 3:11 PM CDT (20:11 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2005, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Barron County, WI

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:11 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 11, 1:10 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 159 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: 61 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -89 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 723 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 74 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 112011
TORMPX
WIC005-112100-
/O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0032.050611T2011Z-050611T2100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
311 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BARRON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 308 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO...6 MILES WEST OF RICE LAKE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  HAUGEN...
  BRILL...
  MIKANA...

LAT...LON 4551 9203 4540 9184 4544 9155 4564 9155
      4564 9190

$$

RJN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 2:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Barron, Polk, Saint Croix	60 min
Jun 11, 2:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Barron, Polk, Saint Croix	44 min
Jun 11, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Eau Claire	45 min
Jun 11, 3:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Saint Croix	29 min
Jun 11, 3:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Barron, Dunn, Polk, Saint Croix	44 min
Jun 11, 4:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Barron	35 min
Jun 11, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Saint Croix	42 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.