Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 138, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2005, 3:56 PM CDT for Faribault County, Freeborn County, Martin County, Minnesota. It was in force for 64 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 20, 2005, 3:56 PM CDT (20:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2005, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Faribault County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Martin County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:59 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 4:35 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Sherburn, MN | |
| Jun 20, 4:45 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | Fairmont, MN | |
| Jun 20, 4:47 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Fairmont, MN | |
| Jun 20, 4:55 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Albert Lea, MN | LARGE BRANCH FELL...TOOK POWER LINE DOWN WITH IT. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 20, 1:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 202057 SVRMPX MNC043-047-091-202200- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0138.050620T2056Z-050620T2200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 356 PM CDT MON JUN 20 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... FARIBAULT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA FREEBORN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA MARTIN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * AT 354 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 21 MILES NORTH OF ALBERT LEA TO 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF FAIRMONT...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OWATONNA TO 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF FAIRMONT...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DEVELOPING NEAR CEYLON. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BLUE EARTH... ALBERT LEA... LAT...LON 4385 9321 4366 9485 4352 9479 4352 9305 $$ RJN
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 202137 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 435 PM CDT MON JUN 20 2005 MNC043-047-091-202200- /O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0138.000000T0000Z-050620T2200Z/ FARIBAULT MN-FREEBORN MN-MARTIN MN- 435 PM CDT MON JUN 20 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR MARTIN...FREEBORN AND FARIBAULT COUNTIES... AT 429 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM CLARKS GROVE TO DUNNELL...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES NORTH OF ALBERT LEA TO 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF JACKSON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. DIME SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED AT SHERBURN IN MARTIN COUNTY AT 435 PM. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS LINE OF STORMS INCLUDE FROST... MANSFIELD...WALTERS...HAYWARD...CONGER...KIESTER...TWIN LAKES... MYRTLE AND GLENVILLE. LAT...LON 4385 9321 4366 9485 4352 9479 4352 9305 $$ MKM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 6:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton | 62 min |
| Jun 20, 6:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kanabec, Mille Lacs | 65 min |
| Jun 20, 10:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope, Stevens | 60 min |
| Jun 20, 10:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Todd | 66 min |
| Jun 20, 11:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Pope, Stearns, Swift | 64 min |
| Jun 20, 11:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 62 min |
| Jun 20, 11:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 57 min |
| Jun 20, 11:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Mille Lacs, Sherburne | 63 min |
| Jun 20, 12:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker, Stearns | 71 min |
| Jun 20, 12:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin, Wright | 63 min |
| Jun 20, 12:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec | 56 min |
| Jun 20, 12:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Renville, Sibley | 64 min |
| Jun 20, 1:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood, Yellow Medicine | 64 min |
| Jun 20, 1:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 20, 1:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey and 3 more | 61 min |
| Jun 20, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Nicollet, Renville, Sibley | 65 min |
| Jun 20, 2:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Redwood | 51 min |
| Jun 20, 2:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue, Le Sueur, Rice | 61 min |
| Jun 20, 3:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Waseca, Watonwan | 59 min |
| Jun 20, 3:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Goodhue, Le Sueur, Nicollet, Rice | 3 hr |
| Jun 20, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod | 39 min |
| Jun 20, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Martin | 21 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.