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Tornado Warning 68, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Sep 21, 2005, 7:16 PM CDT for Ramsey County, Minnesota. It was in force for 44 min. 6 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 21, 2005, 7:16 PM CDT (00:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 21, 2005, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Ramsey County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 7:22 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | New Brighton, MN | 3 TO 8 INCH DIAMETER TREE BRANCHES DOWN. |
| Sep 21, 7:35 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | New Brighton, MN | NUMEROUS TREES UPROOTED NEAR DRIFTWOOD PARK. DOZENS OF TREE BRANCHES DOWNED ELSEWHERE. |
| Sep 21, 7:37 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | North St Paul, MN | 4 FOOT DIAMETER TREE DOWN. |
| Sep 21, 7:40 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | North St Paul, MN | 4 INCH DIAMETER BRANCHES DOWN. |
| Sep 21, 7:44 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Arden Hills, MN | TREES DOWN ACROSS HIGHWAY 10. |
| Sep 21, 7:50 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Shoreview, MN | TREES UP TO 3 FEET IN DIAMETER DOWNED. |
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 21, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 47 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
- 2043 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1714 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 274 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 406 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 9.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KMPX 220016 TORMPX MNC123-220100- /O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0068.050922T0016Z-050922T0100Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 716 PM CDT WED SEP 21 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RAMSEY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 712 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF ROSEVILLE...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTH OF MINNEAPOLIS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ROSEVILLE... SHOREVIEW... NEW BRIGHTON... MOUNDSVIEW... 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 4512 9300 4513 9323 4499 9320 4499 9299 $$ KAT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Ramsey | 53 min |
| Sep 21, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin | 52 min |
| Sep 21, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Washington | 53 min |
| Sep 21, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago | 58 min |
| Sep 21, 7:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Washington | 27 min |
| Sep 21, 7:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Ramsey, Washington | 3 hr |
| Sep 21, 7:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 3 hr |
| Sep 21, 7:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Anoka | 3 hr |
| Sep 21, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin, Ramsey | 63 min |
| Sep 21, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sherburne, Wright | 67 min |
| Sep 21, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Washington | 64 min |
| Sep 21, 8:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Sherburne | 3 hr |
| Sep 21, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 22 min |
| Sep 21, 8:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Wright | 3 hr |
| Sep 21, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 39 min |
| Sep 21, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker | 63 min |
| Sep 21, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod | 35 min |
| Sep 21, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver | 33 min |
| Sep 21, 11:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Scott | 25 min |
| Sep 21, 11:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota | 41 min |
| Sep 21, 11:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice | 38 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.