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Tornado Warning 56, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Aug 9, 2005, 3:25 PM CDT for Blue Earth County, Nicollet County, Minnesota. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report 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
- Aug 9, 2005, 3:25 PM CDT (20:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2005, 3:59 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Blue Earth County, MN, Nicollet County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 3:35 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | North Mankato, MN | SIX INCH BRANCHES DOWN. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 2206 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1490 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 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 092025 TORMPX MNC013-103-092100- /O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0056.050809T2025Z-050809T2100Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 325 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN NICOLLET COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA NORTHERN BLUE EARTH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 400 PM CDT * AT 322 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO...5 MILES NORTHWEST OF MANKATO MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MANKATO... NORTH MANKATO... EAGLE LAKE... WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. LAT...LON 4429 9420 4411 9419 4407 9379 4422 9380 $$ JPR
2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS53 KMPX 092042
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
341 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2005
MNC053-092051-
/O.CAN.KMPX.SV.W.0279.000000T0000Z-050809T2115Z/
HENNEPIN MN-
341 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2005
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR HENNEPIN COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED SOUTH AND EAST OUT OF THE COUNTY.
THEREFORE...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
LAT...LON 4479 9330 4468 9329 4454 9308 4471 9281
4476 9302 4489 9303
$$
MNC037-092115-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0279.000000T0000Z-050809T2115Z/
DAKOTA MN-
341 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2005
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 415 PM CDT FOR
DAKOTA COUNTY...
AT 340 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.
THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES
NORTHEAST OF INVER GROVE HEIGHTS TO EAGAN...AND MOVING EAST AT 25
MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE RANDOLPH...VERMILLION...
ROSEMOUNT...LAKEVILLE...HAMPTON...FARMINGTON...BURNSVILLE AND
APPLE VALLEY.
LAT...LON 4479 9330 4468 9329 4454 9308 4471 9281
4476 9302 4489 9303
$$
DWE000 WWUS53 KMPX 092059 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 358 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2005 MNC013-092110- /O.CAN.KMPX.TO.W.0056.000000T0000Z-050809T2100Z/ BLUE EARTH MN- 358 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN BLUE EARTH COUNTY IS BEING ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... THE STORM HAS WEAKENED...AND NO LONGER APPEARS TORNADIC. THEREFORE... THE TORNADO WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. SPOTTERS WILL CONTINUE TO WATCH THE STORM AND WILL QUICKLY NOTIFY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IF IT STRENGTHENS AGAIN. LAT...LON 4417 9415 4410 9412 4407 9379 4422 9380 $$ TDK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 1:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 39 min |
| Aug 9, 3:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 41 min |
| Aug 9, 3:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Todd | 57 min |
| Aug 9, 4:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 60 min |
| Aug 9, 5:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kanabec, Mille Lacs | 44 min |
| Aug 9, 2:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin | 49 min |
| Aug 9, 2:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sibley | 42 min |
| Aug 9, 2:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Redwood | 38 min |
| Aug 9, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Scott | 47 min |
| Aug 9, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Hennepin | 64 min |
| Aug 9, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Nicollet | 73 min |
| Aug 9, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Scott | 45 min |
| Aug 9, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice | 65 min |
| Aug 9, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown | 32 min |
| Aug 9, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Washington | 59 min |
| Aug 9, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Waseca | 61 min |
| Aug 9, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Martin | 39 min |
| Aug 9, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 65 min |
| Aug 9, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Steele | 46 min |
| Aug 9, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault | 70 min |
| Aug 9, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Waseca | 25 min |
| Aug 9, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 50 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.