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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2005, 6:39 PM CDT for Rice County, Minnesota. It was in force for 51 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
- Jun 27, 2005, 6:39 PM CDT (23:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2005, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Rice County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 58 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 272341 SVRMPX MNC131-280030- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0161.050627T2339Z-050628T0030Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 639 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RICE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 637 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES WEST OF FARIBAULT...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BRIDGEWATER... MORRISTOWN... WARSAW... DUNDAS... FARIBAULT... SHEILDSVILLE... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4432 9355 4419 9337 4439 9316 4452 9331 $$ 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, 6:11 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, 6:40 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.