Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 244, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 2005, 3:03 PM CDT for Stearns County, Minnesota. It was in force for 42 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 25, 2005, 3:03 PM CDT (20:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2005, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Stearns County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 3:10 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 S Rockville, MN | TREES DOWN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 789 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1163 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 252003 SVRMPX MNC145-252045- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0244.050725T2003Z-050725T2045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 303 PM CDT MON JUL 25 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... STEARNS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 345 PM CDT * AT 301 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ROCKVILLE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ST CLOUD...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ST JOSEPH... PLEASANT LAKE... LUXEMBURG... WAITE PARK... ST AUGUSTA... LAT...LON 4552 9451 4534 9447 4535 9412 4560 9422 $$ KAT
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 252017 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 317 PM CDT MON JUL 25 2005 MNC145-252045- /O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0244.000000T0000Z-050725T2045Z/ STEARNS MN- 317 PM CDT MON JUL 25 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 345 PM CDT FOR STEARNS COUNTY... AT 315 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...AND THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LUXEMBURG...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ST CLOUD... MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE ST AUGUSTA...WAITE PARK... ROCKVILLE AND PLEASANT LAKE. DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED SOME WEAK ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM. WHILE NOT IMMEDIATELY LIKELY...A TORNADO MAY STILL DEVELOP. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. LAT...LON 4552 9439 4534 9439 4535 9412 4558 9418 $$ KAT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 3:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Sherburne, Stearns, Wright | 51 min |
| Jul 25, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Watonwan | 65 min |
| Jul 25, 6:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn | 2 hr |
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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.