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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 130, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 20, 2005Redwood County, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2005, 1:11 PM CDT for Redwood County, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. It was in force for 64 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 20, 2005, 1:11 PM CDT (18:11 UTC)
Expired
Jun 20, 2005, 2:15 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Redwood County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:12 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

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 145 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2005-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 93 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2005-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 129 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
93 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-433 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1305 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
129 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
156 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 201812
SVRMPX
MNC127-173-201915-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0130.050620T1811Z-050620T1915Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
111 PM CDT MON JUN 20 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  REDWOOD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 215 PM CDT

* AT 107 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  DEVELOPING NORTHWEST OF REDWOOD FALLS. ADDITIONAL SEVERE           
  THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOPED ACROSS YELLOW              
  MEDICINE AND REDWOOD COUNTIES BETWEEN NOW AND 215 PM.
 

LAT...LON 4485 9565 4433 9555 4439 9487 4462 9529

$$

RJN
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS53 KMPX 201838
SVSMPX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
135 PM CDT MON JUN 20 2005

MNC173-201845-
/O.CAN.KMPX.SV.W.0130.000000T0000Z-050620T1915Z/
YELLOW MEDICINE MN-
135 PM CDT MON JUN 20 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

THE SEVERE WEATHER HAS MOVED EAST AND SOUTH OF YELLOW MEDICINE 
COUNTY. THEREFORE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN 
CANCELLED. 

LAT...LON 4450 9553 4433 9555 4439 9487 4460 9520

$$

MNC127-201915-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0130.000000T0000Z-050620T1915Z/
REDWOOD MN-
135 PM CDT MON JUN 20 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 215 PM CDT FOR
REDWOOD COUNTY...

AT 133 PM CDT...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE SEVERE 
WARNING FOR REDWOOD COUNTY HAS MOVED EAST OF THE AREA. 
HOWEVER...ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS IS MOVING OUT OF SOUTH 
DAKOTA AND IS APPROACHING REDWOOD COUNTY FROM THE WEST. THEREFORE 
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL THESE 
STORMS PASS.  

LAT...LON 4450 9553 4433 9555 4439 9487 4460 9520

$$

MKM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 6:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBenton62 min
Jun 20, 6:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXKanabec, Mille Lacs65 min
Jun 20, 10:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXDouglas, Pope, Stevens60 min
Jun 20, 10:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXTodd66 min
Jun 20, 11:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXKandiyohi, Pope, Stearns, Swift64 min
Jun 20, 11:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMorrison62 min
Jun 20, 11:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXChippewa57 min
Jun 20, 11:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBenton, Mille Lacs, Sherburne63 min
Jun 20, 12:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXKandiyohi, Meeker, Stearns71 min
Jun 20, 12:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXHennepin, Wright63 min
Jun 20, 12:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXAnoka, Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec56 min
Jun 20, 12:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMcLeod, Renville, Sibley64 min
Jun 20, 1:29 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMPXAnoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott and 1 more3 hr
Jun 20, 1:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXAnoka, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey and 3 more61 min
Jun 20, 1:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXNicollet, Renville, Sibley65 min
Jun 20, 2:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBrown, Redwood51 min
Jun 20, 2:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXGoodhue, Le Sueur, Rice61 min
Jun 20, 3:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBlue Earth, Waseca, Watonwan59 min
Jun 20, 3:11 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMPXBlue Earth, Goodhue, Le Sueur, Nicollet, Rice3 hr
Jun 20, 3:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXFaribault, Freeborn, Martin64 min
Jun 20, 4:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMcLeod39 min
Jun 20, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMartin21 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.