Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2005, 6:33 PM CDT for Brown County, Minnesota. It was in force for 57 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, 6:33 PM CDT (23:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2005, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 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), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 107 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 052334
SVRMPX
MNC015-060030-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0021.050505T2333Z-050506T0030Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
633 PM CDT THU MAY 5 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
BROWN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 730 PM CDT
* AT 630 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES
NORTHWEST OF SLEEPY EYE...OR ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTHEAST OF REDWOOD
FALLS...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
EVAN...
SLEEPY EYE...
NEW ULM...
LAT...LON 4448 9485 4428 9486 4412 9487 4411 9438
4425 9438
$$2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS53 KMPX 052357
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
654 PM CDT THU MAY 5 2005
MNC015-060030-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-050506T0030Z/
BROWN MN-
654 PM CDT THU MAY 5 2005
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR BROWN
COUNTY...
AT 652 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...AND THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR SLEEPY EYE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF NEW ULM...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH TOWARD SEARLES AND HANSKA.
LAT...LON 4448 9485 4428 9486 4412 9487 4411 9438
4425 9438
$$000
WWUS53 KMPX 060028
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
727 PM CDT THU MAY 5 2005
MNC015-060030-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-050506T0030Z/
BROWN MN-
727 PM CDT THU MAY 5 2005
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR BROWN
COUNTY...
AT 726 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A WEAKENING THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES
NORTHWEST OF HANSKA...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEW ULM...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR BROWN COUNTY WILL
BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 730 PM.
LAT...LON 4448 9485 4428 9486 4412 9487 4411 9438
4425 9438
$$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, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Nicollet, Renville, Sibley | 43 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.