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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 203, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2005, 10:19 PM CDT for Steele County, Minnesota. It was in force for 41 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, 10:19 PM CDT (03:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2005, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Steele County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:21 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, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 92 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 300320 SVRMPX MNC147-300400- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0203.050630T0319Z-050630T0400Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1019 PM CDT WED JUN 29 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... STEELE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1100 PM CDT * AT 1017 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM OWATONNA TO 14 MILES SOUTH OF WASECA...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... OWATONNA... MEDFORD... STEELE CENTER... ELLENDALE... DEERFIELD... LAT...LON 4419 9339 4386 9340 4386 9306 4419 9306 $$ KAT
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 300356 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1055 PM CDT WED JUN 29 2005 MNC147-300405- /O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0203.000000T0000Z-050630T0400Z/ STEELE MN- 1055 PM CDT WED JUN 29 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR STEELE COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 1100 PM CDT... THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING FOR STEELE COUNTY HAS MOVED OUT OF THE COUNTY. THEREFORE...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. LAT...LON 4419 9339 4386 9340 4386 9306 4419 9306 $$
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, 8:05 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, 10:26 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.