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Tornado Warning 57, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Sep 3, 2005, 3:22 PM CDT for Meeker County, Minnesota. It was in force for 23 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
- Sep 3, 2005, 3:22 PM CDT (20:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2005, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Meeker County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 308 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
- 713 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -297 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1214 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KMPX 032023
TORMPX
MNC093-032045-
/O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0057.050903T2022Z-050903T2045Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
322 PM CDT SAT SEP 3 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
MEEKER COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 345 PM CDT
* AT 320 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD
A FEW MILES SOUTHEAST OF PAYNESVILLE...ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHEST OF
MANANNAH...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF LITCHFIELD...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MANANNAH...
WATKINS...
WESTPORT...
KINGSTON...
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 4533 9475 4512 9475 4512 9426 4527 9428
4527 9439 4532 9440
$$
MKMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 1:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 48 min |
| Sep 3, 1:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker | 31 min |
| Sep 3, 2:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 62 min |
| Sep 3, 2:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Stearns | 4 hr |
| Sep 3, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 62 min |
| Sep 3, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 39 min |
| Sep 3, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 62 min |
| Sep 3, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Meeker | 39 min |
| Sep 3, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Wright | 62 min |
| Sep 3, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 62 min |
| Sep 3, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver | 56 min |
| Sep 3, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sibley | 55 min |
| Sep 3, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 51 min |
| Sep 3, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Todd | 60 min |
| Sep 3, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Scott | 54 min |
| Sep 3, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur | 46 min |
| Sep 3, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice | 54 min |
| Sep 3, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue, Steele | 54 min |
| Sep 3, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 65 min |
| Sep 3, 6:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Stearns | 3 hr |
| Sep 3, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 64 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.