Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2005, 5:47 PM CDT for 4 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 43 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
- May 5, 2005, 5:47 PM CDT (22:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2005, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Brown County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Renville County, MN, Sibley County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:47 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1732 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 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 052251 SVRMPX MNC015-103-129-143-052330- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0020.050505T2247Z-050505T2330Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 547 PM CDT THU MAY 5 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RENVILLE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA SIBLEY COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA BROWN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA NICOLLET COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 539 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED 28 MILES WEST OF GAYLORD...OR ABOUT 17 MILES EAST OF REDWOOD FALLS...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... GAYLORD... BERNADOTTE... ST GEORGE... NICOLLET... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4464 9484 4443 9489 4424 9407 4459 9408 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 052320 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 616 PM CDT THU MAY 5 2005 MNC015-103-129-143-052330- /O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0020.000000T0000Z-050505T2330Z/ RENVILLE MN-SIBLEY MN-BROWN MN-NICOLLET MN- 616 PM CDT THU MAY 5 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR NICOLLET...BROWN...SIBLEY AND RENVILLE COUNTIES... AT 614 PM...DIME SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED BY STORM SPOTTERS IN LAFAYETTE...ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF MANKATO. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH TOWARDS NICOLLET. AT 614 PM...DOPPLER RADAR ALSO INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL 10 MILES SOUTH OF FAIRFAX. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST TOWARD SLEEPY EYE AND NEW ULM. LAT...LON 4464 9484 4443 9489 4424 9407 4459 9408 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Renville | 33 min |
| May 5, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Renville | 43 min |
| May 5, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown | 57 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005
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.