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Tornado Warning 65, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Sep 21, 2005, 6:59 PM CDT for McLeod County, Meeker County, Minnesota. It was in force for 27 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 21, 2005, 6:59 PM CDT (23:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 21, 2005, 7:26 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 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 21, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 54 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
- 15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -441 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1544 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 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 212358
TORMPX
MNC085-093-220100-
/O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0065.050921T2359Z-050922T0100Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
659 PM CDT WED SEP 21 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
MEEKER COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
MCLEOD COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 800 PM CDT
* AT 658 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD
NEAR DASSEL...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF HUTCHINSON...MOVING
EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SILVER LAKE...
WINSTED...
LESTER PRAIRIE...
DASSEL...
LAT...LON 4512 9435 4495 9441 4480 9404 4497 9403
4498 9426 4513 9427
$$
KAT2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KMPX 220013 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 713 PM CDT WED SEP 21 2005 MNC093-220023- /O.CAN.KMPX.TO.W.0065.000000T0000Z-050922T0100Z/ MEEKER MN- 713 PM CDT WED SEP 21 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR MEEKER COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE SEVERE STORM HAS MOVED EAST OF MEEKER COUNTY. LAT...LON 4498 9424 4489 9423 4487 9402 4497 9403 $$ MNC085-220100- /O.CON.KMPX.TO.W.0065.000000T0000Z-050922T0100Z/ MCLEOD MN- 713 PM CDT WED SEP 21 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR MCLEOD COUNTY... AT 712 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WINSTED...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF HUTCHINSON...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE SILVER LAKE AND LESTER PRAIRIE. 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. LAT...LON 4498 9424 4489 9423 4487 9402 4497 9403 $$ KAT
000 WWUS53 KMPX 220026 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 726 PM CDT WED SEP 21 2005 MNC085-220036- /O.CAN.KMPX.TO.W.0065.000000T0000Z-050922T0100Z/ MCLEOD MN- 726 PM CDT WED SEP 21 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR MCLEOD COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE SEVERE STORM HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. LAT...LON 4498 9424 4489 9423 4487 9402 4497 9403 $$ KAT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Stearns | 67 min |
| Sep 21, 5:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Stearns | 56 min |
| Sep 21, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Sherburne | 40 min |
| Sep 21, 5:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 40 min |
| Sep 21, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker | 61 min |
| Sep 21, 6:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Sherburne, Wright | 41 min |
| Sep 21, 6:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Meeker | 31 min |
| Sep 21, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago | 39 min |
| Sep 21, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin, Sherburne, Wright | 67 min |
| Sep 21, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Meeker | 67 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.