Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 2005, 4:50 AM CST for Martin County, Minnesota. It was in force for 25 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
- Mar 30, 2005, 4:50 AM CST (10:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2005, 5:15 AM CST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Martin County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 260 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2491 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 301051 SVRMPX MNC091-301115- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0001.050330T1050Z-050330T1115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 450 AM CST WED MAR 30 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MARTIN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 515 AM CST * AT 449 AM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SHERBURN...OR ABOUT 12 MILES EAST OF JACKSON...AND MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... CEYLON. DUNNELL. SHERBURN. TRIMONT. WELCOME. LAT...LON 4353 9488 4352 9463 4384 9454 4385 9485 $$ JPR
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 301101 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 500 AM CST WED MAR 30 2005 MNC091-301115- /O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0001.000000T0000Z-050330T1115Z/ MARTIN MN- 500 AM CST WED MAR 30 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 515 AM CST FOR WESTERN MARTIN COUNTY... AT 457 AM CST...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR TRIMONT...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF FAIRMONT...MOVING NORTH AT 50 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE FOXLAKE...WELCOME... SHERBURN...DUNNELL AND CEYLON. LAT...LON 4353 9488 4352 9463 4384 9454 4385 9485 $$ JPR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 5:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Martin, Watonwan | 28 min |
| Mar 30, 6:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Meeker | 44 min |
| Mar 30, 12:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Steele | 36 min |
| Mar 30, 1:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 40 min |
| Mar 30, 2:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 32 min |
| Mar 30, 2:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 31 min |
| Mar 30, 3:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 64 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.