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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2005, 6:26 PM CDT for Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota. It was in force for 64 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
- May 8, 2005, 6:26 PM CDT (23:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2005, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lac qui Parle County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 1:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 1864 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 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 082327 TORMPX MNC073-090030- /O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0008.050508T2326Z-050509T0030Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 626 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 621 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO...18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MADISON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MADISON... BELLINGHAM... NASSAU... HAYDENVILLE... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN MINNESOTA. LAT...LON 4481 9645 4481 9624 4508 9599 4526 9644 $$ RAH
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 082359 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 659 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2005 MNC073-090030- /O.CON.KMPX.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-050509T0030Z/ LAC QUI PARLE MN- 659 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY... AT 656 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MARIETTA...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MADISON... MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE CERRO GORDO AND BELLINGHAM. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN MINNESOTA. LAT...LON 4481 9645 4481 9624 4508 9599 4526 9644 $$ RAH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stevens, Swift | 45 min |
| May 8, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Martin | 64 min |
| May 8, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood | 40 min |
| May 8, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 48 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.