Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 2005, 5:28 PM CDT for Swift County, Minnesota. 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
- Apr 19, 2005, 5:28 PM CDT (22:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2005, 6:17 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Swift County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -156 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1008 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 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 192229 TORMPX MNC151-192315- /O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0004.050419T2228Z-050419T2315Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 528 PM CDT TUE APR 19 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SWIFT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 527 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO...8 MILES NORTHEAST OF BENSON...MOVING SOUTH AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BENSON... SWIFT FALLS... DE GRAFF... MURDOCK... KERKHOVEN... 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 4541 9539 4541 9566 4517 9571 4517 9535 $$ RAH
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KMPX 192246 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 546 PM CDT TUE APR 19 2005 MNC151-192315- /O.CON.KMPX.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-050419T2315Z/ SWIFT MN- 546 PM CDT TUE APR 19 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR SWIFT COUNTY... AT 541 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR DE GRAFF...OR ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF BENSON...MOVING SOUTH AT 30 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE MURDOCK AND KERKHOVEN. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 4540 9527 4540 9560 4517 9553 4517 9527 $$ RAH
000 WWUS53 KMPX 192317 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 615 PM CDT TUE APR 19 2005 MNC151-192325- /O.EXP.KMPX.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-050419T2315Z/ SWIFT MN- 615 PM CDT TUE APR 19 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SWIFT COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 615 PM CDT... NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER HAVE BEEN RECEIVED AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FOR SWIFT COUNTY. AT 615 PM...A WEAKENING THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR KERKHOVEN. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 30 MPH. LAT...LON 4540 9527 4540 9560 4517 9553 4517 9527 $$ RAH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 4:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Pope | 62 min |
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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.