Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 10, 2005, 9:31 AM CDT for 4 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 44 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
- Apr 10, 2005, 9:31 AM CDT (14:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 10, 2005, 10:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Watonwan County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 1416 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 101434 SVRMPX MNC013-015-103-165-101515- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0013.050410T1431Z-050410T1515Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 931 AM CDT SUN APR 10 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BROWN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA NICOLLET COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA BLUE EARTH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA WATONWAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1015 AM CDT * AT 922 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 20 MILES WEST OF MADELIA TO 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MADELIA...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF ST JAMES TO 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MANKATO...AND MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MADELIA. NEW ULM. LAT...LON 4404 9463 4398 9437 4444 9406 4443 9441 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KMPX 101454 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 953 AM CDT SUN APR 10 2005 MNC013-015-103-165-101515- /O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-050410T1515Z/ BROWN MN-NICOLLET MN-BLUE EARTH MN-WATONWAN MN- 953 AM CDT SUN APR 10 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1015 AM CDT FOR NORTHEASTERN WATONWAN...NORTHWESTERN BLUE EARTH...CENTRAL NICOLLET AND SOUTHEASTERN BROWN COUNTIES... AT 944 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR IN CHANHASSEN CONTINUED TO INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM LA SALLE TO KLOSSNER...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM ST JAMES TO 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF NEW ULM...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE NORSELAND...CREDIT RIVER... NICOLLET...NEW ULM...MADELIA...HANSKA AND COURTLAND. LAT...LON 4404 9463 4398 9437 4444 9406 4443 9441 $$
000 WWUS53 KMPX 101514 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1014 AM CDT SUN APR 10 2005 MNC013-015-103-165-101524- /O.CAN.KMPX.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-050410T1515Z/ BROWN MN-NICOLLET MN-BLUE EARTH MN-WATONWAN MN- 1014 AM CDT SUN APR 10 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN WATONWAN... NORTHWESTERN BLUE EARTH...CENTRAL NICOLLET AND SOUTHEASTERN BROWN COUNTIES IS CANCELLED... RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM HAD WEAKENED TO BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. LAT...LON 4404 9463 4398 9437 4444 9406 4443 9441 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle, Swift | 38 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.