Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 2005, 9:45 PM CDT for Stevens County, Swift County, Minnesota. It was in force for 45 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 7, 2005, 9:45 PM CDT (02:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2005, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 174 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 1309 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1755 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 080246 SVRMPX MNC149-151-080330- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0022.050508T0245Z-050508T0330Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 945 PM CDT SAT MAY 7 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... STEVENS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA SWIFT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1030 PM CDT * AT 940 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES WEST OF APPLETON...OR ABOUT 7 MILES EAST OF ORTONVILLE...AND MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MORRIS... APPLETON... DANVERS... ALBERTA... DONNELLY... 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 4526 9644 4517 9600 4574 9577 4576 9624 $$ RAH
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 080324 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1021 PM CDT SAT MAY 7 2005 MNC149-151-080330- /O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0022.000000T0000Z-050508T0330Z/ STEVENS MN-SWIFT MN- 1021 PM CDT SAT MAY 7 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1030 PM CDT FOR SWIFT AND STEVENS COUNTIES... AT 1019 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR DONNELLY...AND WAS MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 1030 PM. LAT...LON 4526 9644 4517 9600 4574 9577 4576 9624 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Martin | 64 min |
| May 8, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood | 40 min |
| May 8, 6:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle | 64 min |
| May 8, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 48 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.