Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 43, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 2005, 6:40 PM CDT for Anoka County, Ramsey County, Minnesota. 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 27, 2005, 6:40 PM CDT (23:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2005, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Anoka County, MN, Ramsey County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 27, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jun 27, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 3 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 49 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
- 768 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -175 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1390 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KMPX 272341 TORMPX MNC003-123-280015- /O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0043.050627T2340Z-050628T0015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 640 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ANOKA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA RAMSEY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 637 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO...NEAR MOUNDS VIEW...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF MINNEAPOLIS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BLAINE... CIRCLE PINES... MOUNDS VIEW... SHOREVIEW... LAT...LON 4518 9331 4503 9320 4513 9303 4535 9304 $$ KAT
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KMPX 272356 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 656 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2005 MNC003-123-280015- /O.CON.KMPX.TO.W.0043.000000T0000Z-050628T0015Z/ ANOKA MN-RAMSEY MN- 656 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR RAMSEY AND ANOKA COUNTIES... AT 652 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SHOREVIEW...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTH OF ST PAUL... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE LEXINGTON...GEM LAKE...WHITE BEAR LAKE...VADNAIS HEIGHTS...ROSEVILLE...NORTH OAKS...NEW BRIGHTON...MOUNDS VIEW...LITTLE CANADA...LINO LAKES...CIRCLE PINES... CENTERVILLE AND ARDEN HILLS. LAT...LON 4509 9325 4497 9317 4502 9300 4521 9305 $$ KAT
000 WWUS53 KMPX 280014 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 713 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2005 MNC003-123-280023- /O.EXP.KMPX.TO.W.0043.000000T0000Z-050628T0015Z/ ANOKA MN-RAMSEY MN- 713 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR RAMSEY AND ANOKA COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 715 PM CDT... THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS PORTIONS OF RAMSEY AND ANOKA COUNTIES...BUT THE TORNADO THREAT WITH THESE STORMS HAS DECREASED. THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR RAMSEY AND ANOKA COUNTIES WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. LAT...LON 4509 9325 4497 9317 4502 9300 4521 9305 $$ KAT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker, Stearns | 50 min |
| Jun 27, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 49 min |
| Jun 27, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker, Stearns, Wright | 61 min |
| Jun 27, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 56 min |
| Jun 27, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sherburne | 53 min |
| Jun 27, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood | 31 min |
| Jun 27, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Ramsey | 30 min |
| Jun 27, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker, Wright | 58 min |
| Jun 27, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Isanti | 52 min |
| Jun 27, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Waseca | 49 min |
| Jun 27, 6:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Wright | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka | 41 min |
| Jun 27, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice | 51 min |
| Jun 27, 6:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Waseca | 38 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Minnesota, 2005Every tornado warning in 2005Tornadoes in 2005
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.