1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Twin Cities, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 19, 2:00 PM CST, 2 hours 6 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 300 PM CDT TUE APR 19 2005 .DISCUSSION... WELL DEFINED VORT MOVING ACROSS S MN CARRYING WIDESPREAD PRECIPITATION INTO WISCONSIN. RESIDUAL LIGHT RAIN WILL CONTINUE IN THE EVENING IN EC MN FROM LOWER CLOUDS LEFT IN WAKE OF VORT. AREA OF RATHER UNSTABLE AIRMASS OVER CENTRAL INTO NE MN HAS BEEN SUPPORTING CLUSTERS OF THUNDERSTORMS. SB LIFTED INDEX HAS BEEN AS LOW AS B4 WITH INSTABILITY ALSO PRESENT IN MID LEVELS WITH K INDEX IN THE LOWER 30S. VERY WEAK 850 MN THETA E ADVECTION HAS ALSO AIDED THESE STORMS. WEAK SHORTWAVE SHOWN ON WV IMAGERY ACROSS NW MN INTO OT HAS ALSO BEEN PICKED UP BY 18Z ETA. PASSAGE OF THIS FEATURE DURING THE EVENING ALSO WITH SOME RIDGING INTO CENTRAL MN SHOULD SQUASH THESE STORMS. COOLER NELY FLOW TO TO BRING IN A DRY DAY ON WEDNESDAY. HAVE SOME CHC POPS FOR THURSDAY INTO THURSDAY NIGHT AS NEXT COLD FRONT DROPS INTO AREA. BEST CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION WILL BE ACROSS SW/SC MN WHERE INCOMING SHORTWAVE ADDS SOME FORCING. TEMPERATURES NEXT FEW DAYS WILL BE MORE TYPICAL APRIL-LIKE OR PERHAPS A BIT BELOW NORMAL. COULD SEE SOME MORNING LOWS E CWA NEAR FREEZING THURSDAY AND FRIDAY WITH LOW SURFACE DEWPOINTS PUSHING INTO AREA ALONG WITH COOL AIRMASS. LONGER TERM...FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY DEFINITELY A RETURN TO CHILLIER AIR THAN WEVE SEEN THIS MONTH AS MEAN TROF DEVELOPS OVR ERN CONUS WITH SOME PRETTY SIG NEG HEIGHT/TEMP ANOMALIES. LARGE/DRY SFC HI PRES DESCENDS SOUTH THRU UPR MS VLY FRI THRU SUN MORNING SO DRY SEEMS TO BE THE WAY TO GO WITH COOL NELY FLOW. UPR TROF DROPPING SOUTH THRU CANADA...AND WRN CONUS ENERGY WL CONVERGE ON AREA LATE IN EXTENDED. HARD TO TELL HOW THESE TWO SYSTEMS WILL INTERACT...IF AT ALL. KEPT MENTION OF SHRA ACRS SRN ZONES AS SYS PULLS THRU CNTL PLAINS ON MON...DEPARTING TUES. FUTURE RUNS MAY BRING A NEED FOR A NORTHWARD EXPANSION OF THESE POPS. && .MPX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... .MN... .WI... && BAP/BINAU
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 423 PM CDT TUE APR 19 2005 MNZ044-045-050>070-073>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ014>016-023>028-201100- ANOKA-BARRON-BENTON-BLUE EARTH-BROWN-CARVER-CHIPPEWA-CHISAGO-DAKOTA- DUNN-EAU CLAIRE-FARIBAULT-FREEBORN-GOODHUE-HENNEPIN-ISANTI-KANABEC- KANDIYOHI-LAC QUI PARLE-LE SUEUR-MARTIN-MCLEOD-MEEKER-MILLE LACS- NICOLLET-PEPIN-PIERCE-POLK-RAMSEY-REDWOOD-RENVILLE-RICE-RUSK-SCOTT- SHERBURNE-SIBLEY-ST CROIX-STEELE-SWIFT-WASECA-WASHINGTON-WATONWAN- WRIGHT-YELLOW MEDICINE- 423 PM CDT TUE APR 19 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MOST OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MINNESOTA THROUGH EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT. MNZ041>043-047>049-201100- DOUGLAS-MORRISON-POPE-STEARNS-STEVENS-TODD- 423 PM CDT TUE APR 19 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A PORTION OF CENTRAL AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH WEST CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. WHILE MOST OF THE STORMS WILL REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LEVELS...CONDITIONS WILL SUPPORT THE POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENT OF A FEW BRIEF TORNADOES BEFORE 6:30 PM. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD ALSO PRODUCE SOME HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF A DIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS SHOULD MONITOR THUNDERSTORMS CLOSELY THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING FOR DEVELOPMENT OF FUNNEL CLOUDS...AND POSSIBLE BRIEF TORNADOES. REPORTS OF THESE SHOULD BE RELAYED IMMEDIATELY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES. MARGRAF
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 179 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:07 UTC.
1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
A tornado briefly touched down in an open field in Walden Township, Section 16. The touchdown occurred about 2.5 miles north-northwest of the west end of Lake Emily. No damage was reported.
A funnel cloud was spotted by the public about 5 miles northwest of Swift Falls, or 6 miles west of Gilcrest.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Minnesota in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Minnesota, 2005Warnings in Minnesota, April 2005
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5443064, 5443065.