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Tornado Watch 471

June 13, 2005Lyon County, Iowa; 25 counties in Minnesota; 23 counties in South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 13, 2005, 12:20 PM CDT for Lyon County, Iowa; 25 counties in Minnesota; 23 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 13, 2005, 12:20 PM CDT (17:20 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2005, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 49 counties

Lyon County, IA, Benton County, MN, Big Stone County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Grant County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Murray County, MN, Nobles County, MN, Pipestone County, MN, Pope County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Rock County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Todd County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN, Aurora County, SD, Brookings County, SD, Charles Mix County, SD, Clark County, SD, Codington County, SD, Davison County, SD, Deuel County, SD, Douglas County, SD, Grant County, SD, Gregory County, SD, Hamlin County, SD, Hanson County, SD, Hutchinson County, SD, Kingsbury County, SD, Lake County, SD, Lincoln County, SD, McCook County, SD, Miner County, SD, Minnehaha County, SD, Moody County, SD, Roberts County, SD, Sanborn County, SD, Turner County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:21 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.

Warnings issued inside it

24 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 3:14 PM CDTTornado WarningABRCodington31 min
Jun 13, 3:35 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningABRGrant3 hr
Jun 13, 3:47 PM CDTTornado WarningABRCodington45 min
Jun 13, 3:53 PM CDTTornado WarningABRGrant, Roberts52 min
Jun 13, 4:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMcCook, Minnehaha26 min
Jun 13, 5:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXStevens51 min
Jun 13, 5:27 PM CDTTornado WarningABRTraverse33 min
Jun 13, 5:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRedwood, Renville67 min
Jun 13, 5:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMinnehaha, Moody46 min
Jun 13, 6:07 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXDouglas23 min
Jun 13, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLyon50 min
Jun 13, 6:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMurray21 min
Jun 13, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXDouglas60 min
Jun 13, 6:32 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXRedwood63 min
Jun 13, 6:41 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFGrant66 min
Jun 13, 6:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFSDLake2 hr
Jun 13, 6:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLyon44 min
Jun 13, 6:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXChippewa, Swift59 min
Jun 13, 7:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBenton, Morrison47 min
Jun 13, 7:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXPope53 min
Jun 13, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXDouglas60 min
Jun 13, 7:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMeeker43 min
Jun 13, 7:50 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFSDLyon, Sioux4 hr
Jun 13, 7:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDNobles39 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 130 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2005-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2005-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -47 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1058 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 4:13 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllamakee, Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan and 40 more2 hr
Jun 13, 1:56 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Bremer, Buena Vista and 59 more94 min
Jun 13, 3:25 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk and 78 more8 hr
Jun 13, 5:42 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLyon, Osceola93 min
Jun 13, 11:33 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrown, Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Martin and 8 more117 min
Jun 13, 6:05 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 38 more6 hr

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.