Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 216, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 2005, 8:39 PM CDT for Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota. It was in force for 26 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
- Jul 15, 2005, 8:39 PM CDT (01:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2005, 9:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lac qui Parle County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -408 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1577 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 160139 SVRMPX MNC073-160230- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0216.050716T0139Z-050716T0230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 839 PM CDT FRI JUL 15 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 836 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PROVIDENCE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF MADISON...AND MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... PROVIDENCE... DAWSON... BOYD... LAT...LON 4495 9619 4481 9618 4482 9586 4499 9585 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 160205 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 903 PM CDT FRI JUL 15 2005 MNC073-160213- /O.CAN.KMPX.SV.W.0216.000000T0000Z-050716T0230Z/ LAC QUI PARLE MN- 903 PM CDT FRI JUL 15 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY IS CANCELLED... AT 900 PM...A THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PROVIDENCE...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM HAD WEAKENED TO BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. LAT...LON 4495 9619 4481 9618 4482 9586 4499 9585 $$
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.