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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2005, 7:32 PM CDT for Brown County, Minnesota. It was in force for 43 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 29, 2005, 7:32 PM CDT (00:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2005, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Brown County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:33 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 29, 7:40 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 4 Wsw Hanska, MN | FUNNEL CLOUD VISIBLE SINCE 736 PM. |
| Jun 29, 7:49 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 3 Sw Hanska, MN |
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 29, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 2111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 970 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 283 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 415 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.1
- Supercell composite
- 18.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 300033 SVRMPX MNC015-300115- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0183.050630T0032Z-050630T0115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 732 PM CDT WED JUN 29 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BROWN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 729 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 12 MILES WEST OF HANSKA...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF ST JAMES...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... HANSKA... SEARLES... LEAVENWORTH... NEW ULM... RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHERN AND EASTERN BROWN COUNTY... 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 4419 9486 4412 9483 4412 9438 4435 9451 $$ KAT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 7:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Watonwan | 24 min |
| Jun 29, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison, Todd | 63 min |
| Jun 29, 7:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Watonwan | 31 min |
| Jun 29, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Brown | 35 min |
| Jun 29, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Renville | 57 min |
| Jun 29, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Martin | 38 min |
| Jun 29, 7:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth | 49 min |
| Jun 29, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Watonwan | 55 min |
| Jun 29, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Nicollet | 52 min |
| Jun 29, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 62 min |
| Jun 29, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood | 23 min |
| Jun 29, 8:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Nicollet | 50 min |
| Jun 29, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Martin | 62 min |
| Jun 29, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown | 55 min |
| Jun 29, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Renville, Sibley | 64 min |
| Jun 29, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur | 61 min |
| Jun 29, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault | 64 min |
| Jun 29, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Watonwan | 44 min |
| Jun 29, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Mille Lacs | 58 min |
| Jun 29, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth | 56 min |
| Jun 29, 9:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kanabec, Mille Lacs | 55 min |
| Jun 29, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Chisago, Washington | 61 min |
| Jun 29, 9:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Le Sueur | 37 min |
| Jun 29, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Rice | 60 min |
| Jun 29, 9:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Scott | 45 min |
| Jun 29, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver | 55 min |
| Jun 29, 9:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Mille Lacs, Morrison | 3 hr |
| Jun 29, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 49 min |
| Jun 29, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Waseca | 48 min |
| Jun 29, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Steele | 41 min |
| Jun 29, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue, Rice | 49 min |
| Jun 29, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Ramsey, Washington | 39 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.