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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Twin Cities, MN

May 8, 2005Rice County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2005, 7:19 PM CDT for Rice County, Minnesota. It was in force for 26 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
May 8, 2005, 7:19 PM CDT (00:19 UTC)
Expired
May 8, 2005, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Rice County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 59 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 2005-05-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1221 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 2005-05-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 75 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1221 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1254 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
153 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 090020
SVRMPX
MNC131-090045-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0027.050509T0019Z-050509T0045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
719 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  RICE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 717 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM
  WAS LOCATED 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FARIBAULT...OR ABOUT 7 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF WASECA...AND MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  FARIBAULT...
  NORTHFIELD...

LAT...LON 4417 9360 4422 9335 4435 9317 4454 9332
      4453 9349 4437 9350

$$

RJN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 8, 7:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXChippewa, Swift65 min
May 8, 7:27 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXLac qui Parle33 min
May 8, 8:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXAnoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott and 2 more53 min
May 8, 8:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXDouglas, Pope59 min
May 9, 5:35 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXLe Sueur, Scott, Sibley38 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.