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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Twin Cities, MN

May 8, 2005Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2005, 7:27 PM CDT for Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota. It was in force for 33 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, 7:27 PM CDT (00:27 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2005, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 33 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 Aberdeen radar (KABR), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:31 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.

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 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 165 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 17 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -121 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1078 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -160 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KMPX 090027
TORMPX
MNC073-090100-
/O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0009.050509T0027Z-050509T0100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
727 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 800 PM CDT

* AT 726 PM CDT...RADAR WAS TRACKING A SEVERE STORM WITH STRONG
  ROTATION...NEAR BELLINGHAM...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  MADISON...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  BELLINGHAM...
  LOUISBURG...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR
SOUTHWESTERN MINNESOTA.

LAT...LON 4506 9643 4504 9620 4519 9616 4527 9643

$$

RAH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Swift	65 min
May 8, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Rice	26 min
May 8, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott and 2 more	53 min
May 8, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Douglas, Pope	59 min
May 9, 5:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Le Sueur, Scott, Sibley	38 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.