Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 42, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2005, 7:20 PM CDT for Ramsey County, Minnesota. It was in force for 26 min. 2 reports 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 13, 2005, 7:20 PM CDT (00:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2005, 7:46 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Ramsey County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 7:22 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Vadnais Heights, MN | |
| Jun 13, 7:30 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Vadnais Heights, MN |
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 13, 6:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 396 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
- 1225 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 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 140021 TORMPX MNC123-140045- /O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0042.050614T0020Z-050614T0045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 720 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RAMSEY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 716 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO...OVER ROSEVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... VADNAIS HEIGHTS... ARDEN HILLS... WHITE BEAR LAKE... SHOREVIEW... NORTH OAKS... 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 4495 9319 4496 9300 4510 9299 4510 9320 $$ RJN
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 140046 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 746 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005 MNC123-140058- /O.EXP.KMPX.TO.W.0042.000000T0000Z-050614T0045Z/ RAMSEY MN- 746 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR RAMSEY COUNTY EXPIRED AT 745 PM CDT... RADAR SHOWED THE STORM HAD WEAKENED SIGNIFICANTLY...AND NO LONGER SHOWED ANY ROTATION. IT HAD ALSO MOVED NORTHEAST OF VADNAIS HEIGHTS...OUT OF RAMSEY COUNTY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING DOES REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR RAMSEY COUNTY UNTIL 800 PM. QUARTER SIZE HAIL IS STILL POSSIBLE ALONG AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 36...IN ROSEVILLE AND INTO SHOREVIEW. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ALSO IS IN EFFECT FOR ANOKA AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES. LAT...LON 4495 9319 4496 9300 4510 9299 4510 9320 $$ TDK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Ramsey, Washington | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Morrison | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope | 53 min |
| Jun 13, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Isanti | 50 min |
| Jun 13, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker | 43 min |
| Jun 13, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur | 48 min |
| Jun 13, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod | 45 min |
| Jun 13, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Washington | 67 min |
| Jun 13, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Mille Lacs | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago | 66 min |
| Jun 13, 8:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Douglas | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice, Scott | 36 min |
| Jun 13, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Todd | 54 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.