Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 249, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2005, 9:36 PM CDT for Watonwan County, Minnesota. It was in force for 54 min. 2 reports 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
- Aug 3, 2005, 9:36 PM CDT (02:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2005, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Watonwan County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 10:00 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | St James, MN | LARGE TREE DOWN |
| Aug 3, 10:20 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 1 S Butterfield, MN | LARGE TREE DOWN ON COUNTY ROAD 19 |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 1345 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 040236 SVRMPX MNC165-040330- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0249.050804T0236Z-050804T0330Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 936 PM CDT WED AUG 3 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WATONWAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1030 PM CDT * AT 933 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 21 MILES WEST OF ST JAMES TO 21 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ST JAMES...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ST JAMES... MADELIA... DARFUR... BUTTERFIELD... THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS ACROSS PORTIONS OF COTTONWOOD COUNTY. STAY INDOORS...AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4410 9485 4386 9484 4386 9438 4410 9440 $$ KAT
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 040328 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1028 PM CDT WED AUG 3 2005 MNC165-040343- /O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0249.000000T0000Z-050804T0330Z/ WATONWAN MN- 1028 PM CDT WED AUG 3 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WATONWAN COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 1030 PM CDT... THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING FOR WATONWAN COUNTY HAS MOVED EAST OF THE AREA. THEREFORE...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. LAT...LON 4410 9485 4386 9484 4386 9438 4410 9440 $$ KAT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood, Yellow Medicine | 65 min |
| Aug 3, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Nicollet, Redwood, Renville, Sibley | 64 min |
| Aug 3, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth | 60 min |
| Aug 3, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Nicollet, Sibley | 66 min |
| Aug 3, 10:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur | 65 min |
| Aug 3, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Martin | 38 min |
| Aug 3, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Scott | 61 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.