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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 158, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 27, 2005Blue Earth County, Waseca County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2005, 6:11 PM CDT for Blue Earth County, Waseca County, Minnesota. It was in force for 49 min. 2 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 27, 2005, 6:11 PM CDT (23:11 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2005, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Blue Earth County, MN, Waseca County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:12 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 27, 6:55 PM CDT	HAIL 0.75	5 N Waldorf, MN
Jun 27, 7:00 PM CDT	TORNADO	4 N Waldorf, MN	BRIEFLY TOUCHED IN A CORNFIELD

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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 91 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 272313
SVRMPX
MNC013-161-280000-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0158.050627T2311Z-050628T0000Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BLUE EARTH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  WASECA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 602 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF PEMBERTON...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTH OF MANKATO...AND
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  JANESVILLE...
  PEMBERTON...
  ALMA CITY...
  ST CLAIR...

HAIL UP TO THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH IN DIAMETER HAS BEEN REPORTED 
EAST OF RAPIDAN AT 6 PM BY LAW ENFORCEMENT WITH THIS STORM.

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF
YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO CAUSE SERIOUS
INJURY AND SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO PROPERTY.

LAT...LON 4400 9400 4387 9383 4417 9343 4418 9373

$$

MKM

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, 5:04 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, 6:29 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

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.