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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 13, 2005Dakota County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2005, 7:10 PM CDT for Dakota County, Minnesota. It was in force for 65 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, 7:10 PM CDT (00:10 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2005, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Dakota County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:11 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
Jun 13, 6:05 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 401 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: 473 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 750 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 166 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 1.8

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 140010
SVRMPX
MNC037-140115-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0104.050614T0010Z-050614T0115Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
710 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DAKOTA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 706 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  LAKEVILLE...AND MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  BURNSVILLE...
  EAGAN...
  APPLE VALLEY...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO
IS SPOTTED... ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY
STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.

LAT...LON 4460 9328 4456 9309 4471 9291 4488 9310
      4477 9330

$$

RJN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Anoka, Ramsey, Washington	60 min
Jun 13, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Benton, Morrison	47 min
Jun 13, 7:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Ramsey	26 min
Jun 13, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Pope	53 min
Jun 13, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Isanti	50 min
Jun 13, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Douglas	60 min
Jun 13, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Meeker	43 min
Jun 13, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Le Sueur	48 min
Jun 13, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	McLeod	45 min
Jun 13, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Washington	67 min
Jun 13, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Mille Lacs	60 min
Jun 13, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chisago	66 min
Jun 13, 8:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Douglas	4 hr
Jun 13, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Rice, Scott	36 min
Jun 13, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift	33 min
Jun 13, 8:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Todd	54 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.