Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 175, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2005, 10:00 PM CDT for Le Sueur County, Minnesota. It was in force for 45 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, 10:00 PM CDT (03:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2005, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Le Sueur County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 55 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
- 1221 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 960 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 280300 SVRMPX MNC079-280345- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0175.050628T0300Z-050628T0345Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1000 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LE SUEUR COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1045 PM CDT * AT 955 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES WEST OF LE CENTER...OR ABOUT OVER ST PETER...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... LE CENTER... KASOTA... CLEVELAND... ST HENRY... DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED SOME WEAK ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM. WHILE NOT IMMEDIATELY LIKELY...A TORNADO MAY STILL DEVELOP. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. LAT...LON 4447 9385 4427 9399 4424 9375 4445 9355 $$ KAT
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KMPX 280324 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1024 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2005 MNC079-280345- /O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0175.000000T0000Z-050628T0345Z/ LE SUEUR MN- 1024 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1045 PM CDT FOR LE SUEUR COUNTY... AT 1020 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...AND THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CLEVELAND...OR ABOUT 9 MILES EAST OF ST PETER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE ST THOMAS...ST HENRY... MONTGOMERY...LE CENTER...KILKENNY AND KASOTA. DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED SOME WEAK ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM. WHILE NOT IMMEDIATELY LIKELY...A TORNADO MAY STILL DEVELOP. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. LAT...LON 4447 9385 4427 9399 4421 9360 4445 9355 $$ KAT
000 WWUS53 KMPX 280341 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1041 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2005 MNC079-280351- /O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0175.000000T0000Z-050628T0345Z/ LE SUEUR MN- 1041 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR LE SUEUR COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 1045 PM CDT... THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED TO BELOW SEVERE LEVELS. THEREFORE...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR LE SUEUR COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. LAT...LON 4447 9385 4427 9399 4421 9360 4445 9355 $$ KAT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota | 50 min |
| Jun 27, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Waseca | 45 min |
| Jun 27, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Waseca | 45 min |
| Jun 27, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Sibley | 53 min |
| Jun 27, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Nicollet, Sibley | 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.