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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 261, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2005, 6:06 AM CDT for Nicollet County, Minnesota. It was in force for 19 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
- Aug 8, 2005, 6:06 AM CDT (11:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2005, 6:25 AM CDT
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Nicollet County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 5:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 3207 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1389 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 7.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 081106 SVRMPX MNC103-081200- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0261.050808T1106Z-050808T1200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 606 AM CDT MON AUG 8 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NICOLLET COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 700 AM CDT * AT 604 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORSELAND...OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF ST PETER... AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... NORSELAND... LAT...LON 4446 9426 4429 9430 4425 9403 4444 9395 $$ JPR
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 081125 RRA SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 625 AM CDT MON AUG 8 2005 MNC103-081135- /O.CAN.KMPX.SV.W.0261.000000T0000Z-050808T1200Z/ NICOLLET MN- 625 AM CDT MON AUG 8 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NICOLLET COUNTY IS CANCELLED... RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM HAD WEAKENED TO BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. LAT...LON 4446 9426 4429 9430 4425 9403 4444 9395 $$ JPR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 4:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Washington | 56 min |
| Aug 8, 5:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Wright | 56 min |
| Aug 8, 5:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey | 56 min |
| Aug 8, 6:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Washington | 50 min |
| Aug 8, 6:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Renville | 39 min |
| Aug 8, 8:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Renville | 39 min |
| Aug 8, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle | 66 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.