Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 44, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 2005, 6:52 PM CDT for Waseca County, Minnesota. It was in force for 38 min. 3 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 27, 2005, 6:52 PM CDT (23:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2005, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Waseca County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 6:55 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 5 N Waldorf, MN | |
| Jun 27, 7:00 PM CDT | TORNADO | 4 N Waldorf, MN | BRIEFLY TOUCHED IN A CORNFIELD |
| Jun 27, 7:33 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | Waseca, 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 27, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 94 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 272352 TORMPX MNC161-280030- /O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0044.050627T2352Z-050628T0030Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 652 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WASECA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 650 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR WALDORF...OR 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WASECA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... WASECA... ST MARY... WILTON... ALMA CITY... OTISCO... THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 4402 9378 4385 9374 4398 9343 4417 9345 $$ MKM
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 280014 RRA SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 712 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2005 MNC161-280030- /O.CON.KMPX.TO.W.0044.000000T0000Z-050628T0030Z/ WASECA MN- 712 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR WASECA COUNTY... AT 700 PM A TORNADO WAS REPORTED 4 MILES NORTH OF WALDORF BY THE WALDORF POLICE. IT TOUCHED DOWN BRIEFLY IN A CORN FIELD. AT 707 PM CDT...THE TORNADO PRODUCING SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ST MARY AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE OTISCO...WASECA...AND WILTON. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 4402 9378 4385 9374 4398 9343 4417 9345 $$ MKM
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, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Anoka, Ramsey | 35 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.