Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2005, 5:14 PM CDT for Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. It was in force for 46 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 29, 2005, 5:14 PM CDT (22:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2005, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 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), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 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 29, 11:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jun 29, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 318 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -355 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1058 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 292214 SVRMPX MNC173-292300- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0178.050629T2214Z-050629T2300Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 514 PM CDT WED JUN 29 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 512 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPRING CREEK...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF MARSHALL...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SPRING CREEK... CLARKFIELD... HAZEL RUN... HANLEY FALLS... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. 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 4463 9607 4463 9570 4470 9539 4488 9572 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KMPX 292245 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 544 PM CDT WED JUN 29 2005 MNC173-292300- /O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0178.000000T0000Z-050629T2300Z/ YELLOW MEDICINE MN- 544 PM CDT WED JUN 29 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY... AT 542 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...AND THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CLARKFIELD...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTH OF MONTEVIDEO... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS LOCATED NEAR MARSHALL...AND WILL BE MOVING INTO SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY...NEAR HANLEY FALLS AND WOOD LAKE. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE SPRING CREEK...HAZEL RUN AND HANLEY FALLS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED... ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. LAT...LON 4463 9607 4463 9570 4470 9539 4488 9572 $$ KAT
000 WWUS53 KMPX 292259 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 557 PM CDT WED JUN 29 2005 MNC173-292307- /O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0178.000000T0000Z-050629T2300Z/ YELLOW MEDICINE MN- 557 PM CDT WED JUN 29 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 600 PM CDT... THUNDERSTORMS HAVE WEAKENED AND MOVED NORTHEAST OF YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN MINNESOTA. LAT...LON 4463 9607 4463 9570 4470 9539 4488 9572 $$ KAT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stevens | 56 min |
| Jun 29, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope, Stevens | 63 min |
| Jun 29, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Swift | 51 min |
| Jun 29, 5:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Redwood | 36 min |
| Jun 29, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 20 min |
| Jun 29, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope, Todd | 61 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.