Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 38, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2005, 5:53 PM CDT for Stearns County, Minnesota. It was in force for 39 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, 5:53 PM CDT (22:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2005, 6:32 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Stearns County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 137 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 112254 TORMPX MNC145-112330- /O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0038.050611T2253Z-050611T2330Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 553 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... STEARNS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 550 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO...18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SAUK CENTRE...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GLENWOOD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SAUK CENTRE... ELROSA... MELROSE... GREENWALD... BROOTEN... 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 4549 9512 4543 9494 4577 9470 4576 9512 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KMPX 112313 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 611 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2005 MNC145-112330- /O.CON.KMPX.TO.W.0038.000000T0000Z-050611T2330Z/ STEARNS MN- 611 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR STEARNS COUNTY... AT 606 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES WEST OF MEIRE GROVE...OR ABOUT 19 MILES EAST OF GLENWOOD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. A SECOND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPRING HILL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE PADUA...SPRING HILL...SAUK CENTRE...MELROSE...GREENWALD AND ELROSA. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 4549 9512 4542 9487 4577 9470 4576 9512 $$
000 WWUS53 KMPX 112332 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 631 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2005 MNC145-112341- /O.EXP.KMPX.TO.W.0038.000000T0000Z-050611T2330Z/ STEARNS MN- 631 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR STEARNS COUNTY EXPIRED AT 630 PM CDT... AT 630 PM...RADAR INDICATED NO FURTHER INDICATION OF A TORNADO IN WESTERN STEARNS COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS REMAINED BETWEEN MELROSE AND ST ROSA AT 630 PM...BUT THE STORMS WERE NOT SEVERE. THEY WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. LAT...LON 4549 9512 4542 9487 4577 9470 4576 9512 $$
The 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, 4:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chisago | 26 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 |
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.