Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 35, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2005, 4:08 PM CDT for Chisago County, Minnesota. It was in force for 26 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 2005, 4:08 PM CDT (21:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2005, 4:34 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Chisago County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 4:24 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 4 Ne Rush City, MN | FUNNEL CLOUD HAS DISSIPATED |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KMPX 112108
TORMPX
MNC025-112145-
/O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0035.050611T2108Z-050611T2145Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
408 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CHISAGO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 445 PM CDT
* AT 406 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO...NEAR HARRIS...OR ABOUT 14 MILES EAST OF CAMBRIDGE...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
RUSH CITY...
LAT...LON 4557 9310 4548 9287 4564 9288 4573 9288
4573 9312
$$
RJN1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS53 KMPX 112134
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
433 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2005
MNC025-112145-
/O.CAN.KMPX.TO.W.0035.000000T0000Z-050611T2145Z/
CHISAGO MN-
433 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2005
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CHISAGO COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF RUSH CITY AT 424 PM
CDT.
THE FUNNEL CLOUD HAS DISSIPATED AND THE ASSOCIATED THUNDERSTORM HAS
MOVED OUT OF THE COUNTY.
LAT...LON 4557 9310 4548 9287 4564 9288 4573 9288
4573 9312
$$
RJNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 7:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Benton, Stearns | 34 min |
| Jun 11, 12:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 48 min |
| Jun 11, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope | 46 min |
| Jun 11, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope, Swift | 46 min |
| Jun 11, 5:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Stearns | 39 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.