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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 11, 2005Barron County, Wisconsin

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2005, 4:27 PM CDT for Barron County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 35 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, 4:27 PM CDT (21:27 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2005, 5:02 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Barron County, WI

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:27 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 150 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 112126
TORMPX
WIC005-112230-
/O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0036.050611T2127Z-050611T2230Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
427 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 530 PM CDT

* AT 421 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO...8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BARRON...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTHWEST
  OF RICE LAKE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  BARRON...
  RICE LAKE...

LAT...LON 4534 9207 4522 9188 4530 9157 4563 9152
      4563 9209

$$
RJN

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KMPX 112152
SVSMPX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
450 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2005

WIC005-112230-
/O.CON.KMPX.TO.W.0036.000000T0000Z-050611T2230Z/
BARRON WI-
450 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR BARRON COUNTY...

AT 448 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A 
TORNADO...WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTH OF RICE LAKE. THE STORM WAS 
MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

CITIES STILL IN THE PATH INCLUDE HAUGEN AND BRILL.

LAT...LON 4534 9207 4522 9188 4530 9157 4563 9152
      4563 9209

$$
RJN

000 
WWUS53 KMPX 112202
SVSMPX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
501 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2005

WIC005-112215-
/O.CAN.KMPX.TO.W.0036.000000T0000Z-050611T2230Z/
BARRON WI-
501 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR BARRON COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

THE SEVERE STORM HAS WEAKENED...AND MOVED WELL NORTH OF BARRON 
COUNTY. NO ADDITIONAL STORMS ARE EXPECTED IN BARRON COUNTY BETWEEN 5 
PM AND 6 PM.

LAT...LON 4534 9207 4522 9188 4530 9157 4563 9152
      4563 9209

$$
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, 3:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Barron	49 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, 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.