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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 150, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 27, 2005Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2005, 4:12 PM CDT for Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report 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 27, 2005, 4:12 PM CDT (21:12 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2005, 5:01 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Yellow Medicine County, MN

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 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 27, 4:22 PM CDT	HAIL 0.88	Wood Lake, MN

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 158 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: 768 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -175 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1390 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 210 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 221 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 272112
SVRMPX
MNC173-272200-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0150.050627T2112Z-050627T2200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
412 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 408 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HANLEY
  FALLS...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTH OF GRANITE FALLS...AND MOVING EAST
  AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  WOOD LAKE...
  ECHO...
  HANLEY FALLS...

LAT...LON 4476 9571 4465 9571 4455 9537 4473 9542

$$

KAT

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KMPX 272141
SVSMPX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
440 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2005

MNC173-272200-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0150.000000T0000Z-050627T2200Z/
YELLOW MEDICINE MN-
440 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR
YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY...

AT 422 PM CDT...HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS IN DIAMETER WAS REPORTED 
IN WOOD LAKE WITH THIS STORM.

AT 438 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE 
THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL TO THE SIZE OF HALF 
DOLLARS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ECHO...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTH 
OF GRANITE FALLS...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS
OF THE INDICATED COUNTY.

LAT...LON 4473 9549 4460 9552 4455 9537 4473 9542

$$

KAT

000 
WWUS53 KMPX 272201
SVSMPX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
500 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2005

MNC173-272210-
/O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0150.000000T0000Z-050627T2200Z/
YELLOW MEDICINE MN-
500 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY HAS
EXPIRED AT 500 PM CDT...

THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING FOR YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY HAS 
WEAKENED AND THEREFORE...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN 
ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

LAT...LON 4473 9549 4460 9552 4455 9537 4473 9542

$$

KAT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Meeker, Stearns	50 min
Jun 27, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Meeker, Stearns, Wright	61 min
Jun 27, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Hennepin	56 min
Jun 27, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Sherburne	53 min
Jun 27, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Redwood	31 min
Jun 27, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Ramsey	30 min
Jun 27, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Meeker, Wright	58 min
Jun 27, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Isanti	52 min
Jun 27, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Waseca	49 min
Jun 27, 6:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Wright	3 hr
Jun 27, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Anoka	41 min
Jun 27, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Rice	51 min
Jun 27, 6:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Anoka, Ramsey	35 min
Jun 27, 6:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Waseca	38 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.