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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Twin Cities, MN

March 30, 2005Martin County, Watonwan County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 2005, 5:06 AM CST for Martin County, Watonwan County, Minnesota. It was in force for 28 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: Mar 30, 2005, 5:06 AM CST (11:06 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2005, 5:34 AM CST
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Martin County, MN, Watonwan County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:06 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 nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 140 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: 260 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -56 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2491 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 117 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 163 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 301107
SVRMPX
MNC091-165-301130-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0002.050330T1106Z-050330T1130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
506 AM CST WED MAR 30 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 530 AM CST

* AT 502 AM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS
  LOCATED 14 MILES SOUTH OF ST JAMES...AND MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  ST JAMES.
  BUTTERFIELD.
  DARFUR.
 
LAT...LON 4375 9485 4373 9461 4410 9453 4410 9483

$$

JPR

3 follow-up statements

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 301110 CCA
SVRMPX
MNC165-301130-
/O.COR.KMPX.SV.W.0002.050330T1106Z-050330T1130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
510 AM CST WED MAR 30 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 530 AM CST

* AT 506 AM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS
  LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ST JAMES. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY
  STATIONARY.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  ST JAMES.
  BUTTERFIELD.
  DARFUR.

LAT...LON 4387 9484 4386 9457 4410 9454 4410 9484

$$

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 301113 CCB
SVRMPX
MNC165-301130-
/O.COR.KMPX.SV.W.0002.050330T1106Z-050330T1130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
512 AM CST WED MAR 30 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 530 AM CST

* AT 510 AM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM     
  WAS LOCATED NEAR ST JAMES...AND MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH. 


* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  ST JAMES.
  BUTTERFIELD.
  DARFUR.
LAT...LON 4387 9484 4386 9457 4410 9454 4410 9484

$$

000 
WWUS53 KMPX 301134
SVSMPX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
531 AM CST WED MAR 30 2005

MNC165-301141-
/O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0002.000000T0000Z-050330T1130Z/
WATONWAN MN-
531 AM CST WED MAR 30 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WESTERN WATONWAN COUNTY 
EXPIRED AT 530 AM CST...

THE STORM HAS WEAKENED AND A WARNING WILL NOT BE REISSUED.

LAT...LON 4387 9484 4386 9457 4410 9454 4410 9484

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 30, 4:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Martin	25 min
Mar 30, 6:46 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	McLeod, Meeker	44 min
Mar 30, 12:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Steele	36 min
Mar 30, 1:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Goodhue	40 min
Mar 30, 2:28 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MPX	Goodhue	32 min
Mar 30, 2:59 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MPX	Goodhue	31 min
Mar 30, 3:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Goodhue	64 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.