Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 266, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2005, 8:30 AM CDT for McLeod County, Renville County, Minnesota. It was in force for 39 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 8, 2005, 8:30 AM CDT (13:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2005, 9:09 AM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties McLeod County, MN, Renville County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:34 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 8, 8:30 AM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Lakeside, MN | |
| Aug 8, 8:35 AM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Stewart, MN |
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 8, 5:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 310 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
- 227 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -383 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2934 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 081330 SVRMPX MNC085-129-081415- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0266.050808T1330Z-050808T1415Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 830 AM CDT MON AUG 8 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MCLEOD COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA RENVILLE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 915 AM CDT * AT 830 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LAKESIDE...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HUTCHINSON...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... STEWART... BROWNTON... SUMTER... STAY INDOORS...AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4488 9461 4473 9466 4464 9427 4479 9419 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KMPX 081345 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 843 AM CDT MON AUG 8 2005 MNC129-081353- /O.CAN.KMPX.SV.W.0266.000000T0000Z-050808T1415Z/ RENVILLE MN- 843 AM CDT MON AUG 8 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR RENVILLE COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED EAST OF RENVILLE COUNTY. LAT...LON 4482 9448 4470 9448 4464 9427 4479 9419 $$ MNC085-081415- /O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0266.000000T0000Z-050808T1415Z/ MCLEOD MN- 843 AM CDT MON AUG 8 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 915 AM CDT FOR MCLEOD COUNTY... AT 842 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BROWNTON...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTH OF HUTCHINSON. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE SUMTER. LAT...LON 4482 9448 4470 9448 4464 9427 4479 9419 $$
000 WWUS53 KMPX 081409 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 906 AM CDT MON AUG 8 2005 MNC085-081416- /O.CAN.KMPX.SV.W.0266.000000T0000Z-050808T1415Z/ MCLEOD MN- 906 AM CDT MON AUG 8 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR MCLEOD COUNTY IS CANCELLED... RADAR INDICATES THAT THE STORM IN FAR SOUTHERN MCLEOD COUNTY... BETWEEN BROWNTON AND NEW AUBURN HAS WEAKENED AND IS NO LONGER SEVERE. LAT...LON 4482 9448 4470 9448 4464 9427 4479 9419 $$
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, 6:10 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, 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.