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Tornado Warning 45, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 2005, 7:05 PM CDT for Polk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 25 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, 7:05 PM CDT (00:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2005, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Polk County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:07 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 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 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 1221 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 960 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KMPX 280006 TORMPX WIC095-280030- /O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0045.050628T0005Z-050628T0030Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 705 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... POLK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST WISCONSIN * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 702 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO...7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BALSAM LAKE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BALSAM LAKE... MILLTOWN... CENTURIA... RURAL AREAS NORTHEAST OF BALSAM LAKE... GET TO A BASEMENT NOW. LAT...LON 4540 9265 4525 9251 4542 9216 4565 9242 $$ KAT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rusk | 54 min |
| Jun 27, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pierce | 50 min |
| Jun 27, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron, Polk | 60 min |
| Jun 27, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Saint Croix | 46 min |
| Jun 27, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn | 57 min |
| Jun 27, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rusk | 62 min |
| Jun 27, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 58 min |
| Jun 27, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn | 64 min |
| Jun 27, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pepin | 56 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.