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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 186, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 29, 2005Watonwan County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2005, 8:05 PM CDT for Watonwan County, Minnesota. It was in force for 55 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, 8:05 PM CDT (01:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 2005, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Watonwan County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 130 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 300105
SVRMPX
MNC165-300200-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0186.050630T0105Z-050630T0200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
805 PM CDT WED JUN 29 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WATONWAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 803 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 17 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF ST JAMES...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF JACKSON...
  AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  ST JAMES...
  MADELIA...
  BUTTERFIELD...
  SOUTH BRANCH...
  GROGAN...

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 4385 9486 4386 9441 4409 9439 4410 9466

$$

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, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Brown	43 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, 8:08 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

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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.