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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 27, 2005Hennepin County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2005, 5:04 PM CDT for Hennepin County, Minnesota. It was in force for 56 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, 5:04 PM CDT (22:04 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2005, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hennepin County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:08 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 27, 5:27 PM CDT	HAIL 1	Robbinsdale, MN	AT NORTH MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.

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 27, 2:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 18 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 272205
SVRMPX
MNC053-272300-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0152.050627T2204Z-050627T2300Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HENNEPIN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 503 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR 
  ST LOUIS PARK...OR ABOUT OVER MINNEAPOLIS...AND MOVING NORTHEAST   
  AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MINNEAPOLIS...
  GOLDEN VALLEY...
  ROBBINSDALE...
  ST ANTHONY...

LAT...LON 4491 9353 4481 9332 4490 9321 4516 9342

$$

KAT

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KMPX 272256
SVSMPX

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

MNC053-272306-
/O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0152.000000T0000Z-050627T2300Z/
HENNEPIN MN-
556 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR HENNEPIN COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT
600 PM CDT...

THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING FOR HENNEPIN COUNTY HAS MOVED 
OUT OF THE COUNTY. THEREFORE...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WILL 
BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. BEFORE MOVING OUT OF THE COUNTY...THE STORM 
PRODUCED QUARTER SIZE HAIL IN ROBBINSDALE AT 527 PM.

LAT...LON 4491 9353 4481 9332 4490 9321 4516 9342

$$

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, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Yellow Medicine	49 min
Jun 27, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Meeker, Stearns, Wright	61 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.