Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2005, 6:05 PM CDT for Redwood County, Minnesota. It was in force for 40 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 8, 2005, 6:05 PM CDT (23:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2005, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Redwood County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:06 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 8, 1:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| May 8, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 1347 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 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 082305 SVRMPX MNC127-082345- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0024.050508T2305Z-050508T2345Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 605 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... REDWOOD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 601 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTH OF WALNUT GROVE...OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTHEAST OF SLAYTON...AND MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... WALNUT GROVE... LUCAN... MILROY... SEAFORTH... VESTA... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED... ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. LAT...LON 4421 9556 4421 9528 4454 9530 4453 9559 $$ RAH
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 082320 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 618 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2005 MNC127-082345- /O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0024.000000T0000Z-050508T2345Z/ REDWOOD MN- 618 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR REDWOOD COUNTY... AT 614 PM...QUARTER SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN WALNUT GROVE BY A WEATHER SPOTTER WITH THIS STORM. AT 616 PM CDT...THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WALNUT GROVE...OR ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARSHALL...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE VESTA...SEAFORTH...REVERE... MILROY AND LUCAN. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN MINNESOTA. LAT...LON 4421 9556 4421 9528 4454 9530 4453 9559 $$ RAH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stevens, Swift | 45 min |
| May 8, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Martin | 64 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
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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.