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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 117, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 13, 2005Todd County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2005, 8:37 PM CDT for Todd County, Minnesota. It was in force for 54 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, 8:37 PM CDT (01:37 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2005, 9:31 PM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Todd County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 288 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 526 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 171 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 140138
SVRMPX
MNC153-140230-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0117.050614T0137Z-050614T0230Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  TODD COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 930 PM CDT

* AT 835 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF LONG PRAIRIE...AND MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  LONG PRAIRIE...
  CLOTHO...
  EAGLE BEND...

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 4578 9511 4578 9478 4615 9489 4610 9515

$$

KAT

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KMPX 140200
SVSMPX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
859 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005

MNC153-140230-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0117.000000T0000Z-050614T0230Z/
TODD MN-
859 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 930 PM CDT FOR TODD
COUNTY...

AT 855 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...AND THIS STORM WAS 
LOCATED NEAR LONG PRAIRIE...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE PILLSBURY...LITTLE SAUK...
CLOTHO...WEST UNION...HEWITT...EAGLE BEND...CLARISSA...BROWERVILLE
AND BERTHA.

LAT...LON 4578 9511 4578 9478 4636 9481 4636 9515

$$
JPR

000 
WWUS53 KMPX 140231
SVSMPX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
927 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005

MNC153-140240-
/O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0117.000000T0000Z-050614T0230Z/
TODD MN-
927 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR TODD COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 930
PM CDT...

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE STILL MOVING THROUGH PORTIONS OF CENTRAL 
TODD COUNTY FROM EAGLE BEND TO WEST OF SWANVILLE...BUT HAVE WEAKENED 
TO BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. ONE HALF INCH HAIL IS STILL POSSIBLE. 

A WARNING WILL NOT BE REISSUED. 

LAT...LON 4578 9511 4578 9478 4636 9481 4636 9515

$$

KAT

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, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota	65 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

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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.