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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2005, 6:48 PM CDT for Rice County, Minnesota. It was in force for 42 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
- Jun 13, 2005, 6:48 PM CDT (23:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2005, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Rice County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 6:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 55 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
- 955 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 286 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 132349 SVRMPX MNC131-140030- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0101.050613T2348Z-050614T0030Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 648 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RICE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 644 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH OF FARIBAULT...AND MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4438 9344 4433 9320 4443 9309 4447 9343 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stevens | 51 min |
| Jun 13, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood, Renville | 67 min |
| Jun 13, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Scott | 63 min |
| Jun 13, 6:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Douglas | 23 min |
| Jun 13, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Hennepin | 63 min |
| Jun 13, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Douglas | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 6:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Redwood | 63 min |
| Jun 13, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Swift | 59 min |
| Jun 13, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Nicollet, Sibley | 66 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005
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.