Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 59, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Sep 12, 2005, 6:16 PM CDT for Lac qui Parle County, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. It was in force for 59 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
- Sep 12, 2005, 6:16 PM CDT (23:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 12, 2005, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Lac qui Parle County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 6:41 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Burr, MN | |
| Sep 12, 7:10 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Dawson, MN | |
| Sep 12, 7:12 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | Boyd, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1476 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 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 122316 TORMPX MNC073-173-130015- /O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0059.050912T2316Z-050913T0015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 616 PM CDT MON SEP 12 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 612 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO...9 MILES WEST OF CANBY...OR ABOUT 27 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MADISON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... CANBY... DAWSON... ST LEO... SPRING CREEK... 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 4480 9645 4463 9645 4466 9578 4504 9596 $$ KAT
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KMPX 122336 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 635 PM CDT MON SEP 12 2005 MNC073-173-130015- /O.CON.KMPX.TO.W.0059.000000T0000Z-050913T0015Z/ LAC QUI PARLE MN-YELLOW MEDICINE MN- 635 PM CDT MON SEP 12 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR YELLOW MEDICINE AND LAC QUI PARLE COUNTIES... AT 634 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BURR...OR ABOUT 19 MILES SOUTH OF MADISON...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE SPRING CREEK...PROVIDENCE... ST LEO...DAWSON...CANBY AND BOYD. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 4480 9645 4463 9645 4466 9578 4504 9596 $$ KAT
000 WWUS53 KMPX 122355 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 653 PM CDT MON SEP 12 2005 MNC073-173-130015- /O.CON.KMPX.TO.W.0059.000000T0000Z-050913T0015Z/ LAC QUI PARLE MN-YELLOW MEDICINE MN- 653 PM CDT MON SEP 12 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR YELLOW MEDICINE AND LAC QUI PARLE COUNTIES... AT 651 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PROVIDENCE...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTH OF MADISON... AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BURR...ST LEO...DAWSON...CANBY AND BOYD. 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. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN MINNESOTA. LAT...LON 4484 9634 4469 9630 4474 9581 4506 9598 $$ KAT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 6:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 59 min |
| Sep 12, 7:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 66 min |
| Sep 12, 7:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 31 min |
| Sep 12, 8:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Mille Lacs | 31 min |
| Sep 12, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 67 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.