Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 17, 2005, 5:02 PM CDT for Freeborn County, Minnesota. It was in force for 58 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 17, 2005, 5:02 PM CDT (22:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 17, 2005, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Freeborn County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 960 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 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 172202 SVRMPX MNC047-172300- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0015.050417T2202Z-050417T2300Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 502 PM CDT SUN APR 17 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... FREEBORN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 502 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ALBERT LEA...OR ABOUT OVER ALBERT LEA...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ALBERT LEA... LAT...LON 4367 9358 4350 9354 4351 9304 4375 9305 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KMPX 172217 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 516 PM CDT SUN APR 17 2005 MNC047-172300- /O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0015.000000T0000Z-050417T2300Z/ FREEBORN MN- 516 PM CDT SUN APR 17 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR FREEBORN COUNTY... AT 510 PM CDT...A HAM OPERATOR REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL IN ALBERT LEA. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE LONDON...TWIN LAKES... MYRTLE...HAYWARD...GLENVILLE AND CONGER. LAT...LON 4367 9358 4350 9354 4351 9304 4375 9305 $$
000 WWUS53 KMPX 172256 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 552 PM CDT SUN APR 17 2005 MNC047-172302- /O.CAN.KMPX.SV.W.0015.000000T0000Z-050417T2315Z/ FREEBORN MN- 552 PM CDT SUN APR 17 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR FREEBORN COUNTY IS CANCELLED... RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM HAD WEAKENED TO BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE STORM CONTINUE TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS WHICH COULD CAUSE SOME URBAN AND STREET FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IN LOW LYING AREAS IN THE TOWNS OF ALBERT LEA AND ADJACENT NEARBY COMMUNITIES. LAT...LON 4367 9358 4350 9354 4351 9304 4375 9305 $$
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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.