Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2005, 10:40 PM CDT for Le Sueur County, Minnesota. It was in force for 65 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, 10:40 PM CDT (03:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2005, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Le Sueur County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:42 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, 11:00 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Le Center, MN | POWER LINES DOWN |
| Aug 3, 11:15 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Montgomery, MN | ONE TO ONE AND ONE HALF INCH TREE LIMBS SEVERED. |
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 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 51 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 040341 SVRMPX MNC079-040445- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0252.050804T0340Z-050804T0445Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1040 PM CDT WED AUG 3 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LE SUEUR COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1145 PM CDT * AT 1037 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 65 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF LE CENTER TO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LE CENTER...AND MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... LE CENTER... LE SUEUR... CLEVELAND... THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF DOWNING TREES AND POWER LINES IN NICOLLET COUNTY. TAKE COVER IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS LAT...LON 4448 9389 4426 9398 4428 9355 4453 9357 $$ KAT
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 040442 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1141 PM CDT WED AUG 3 2005 MNC079-040456- /O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0252.000000T0000Z-050804T0445Z/ LE SUEUR MN- 1141 PM CDT WED AUG 3 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR LE SUEUR COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 1145 PM CDT... THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING FOR LE SUEUR COUNTY HAS MOVED NORTH AND EAST OF THE AREA. THEREFORE...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. PRIOR TO MOVING OUT OF THE COUNTY...POWER POLES WERE DOWNED IN LE CENTER AT 1100 PM. LAT...LON 4448 9389 4426 9398 4428 9355 4453 9357 $$ 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, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Watonwan | 54 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, 10:43 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.