Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 39, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2005, 6:07 PM CDT for Douglas County, Minnesota. It was in force for 23 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 13, 2005, 6:07 PM CDT (23:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2005, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Douglas County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 196 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 13, 12:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Jun 13, 6:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 955 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 286 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KMPX 132308 TORMPX MNC041-132330- /O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0039.050613T2307Z-050613T2330Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 607 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DOUGLAS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 602 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR LEAF VALLEY...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTH OF ALEXANDRIA...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MILLERVILLE... LEAF VALLEY... LAT...LON 4595 9546 4606 9526 4610 9529 4611 9566 $$ KAT
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 132323 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 622 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005 MNC041-132330- /O.CON.KMPX.TO.W.0039.000000T0000Z-050613T2330Z/ DOUGLAS MN- 622 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY... AT 620 PM...MORE FUNNEL CLOUDS WERE REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT BETWEEN EVANSVILLE AND BRANDON. AT 618 PM CDT...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR EVANSVILLE...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF ALEXANDRIA...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE MELBY...LEAF VALLEY...BELLE RIVER...MILTONA...MILLERVILLE...GARFIELD...CARLOS AND BRANDON. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN MINNESOTA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT TUESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHERN MINNESOTA. LAT...LON 4590 9566 4594 9516 4610 9529 4608 9576 $$ KAT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stevens | 51 min |
| Jun 13, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood, Renville | 67 min |
| Jun 13, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Scott | 63 min |
| Jun 13, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Hennepin | 63 min |
| Jun 13, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Douglas | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 6:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Redwood | 63 min |
| Jun 13, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Swift | 59 min |
| Jun 13, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice | 42 min |
| Jun 13, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Nicollet, Sibley | 66 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.