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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 262, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2005, 6:10 AM CDT for Washington County, Minnesota. It was in force for 50 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, 6:10 AM CDT (11:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2005, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Washington County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:12 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 56 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 081110 SVRMPX MNC163-081200- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0262.050808T1110Z-050808T1200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 610 AM CDT MON AUG 8 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 700 AM CDT * AT 608 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WOODBURY...OR ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF ST PAUL...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... COTTAGE GROVE... AFTON... LAKELAND... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4503 9296 4480 9300 4476 9282 4497 9276 $$
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, 6:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Nicollet | 19 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.