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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 283, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2005, 3:30 PM CDT for Brown County, Minnesota. It was in force for 32 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 9, 2005, 3:30 PM CDT (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2005, 4:02 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Brown County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 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 9, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 2206 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1490 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 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 092030 SVRMPX MNC015-092115- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0283.050809T2030Z-050809T2115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 330 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BROWN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 415 PM CDT * AT 326 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SLEEPY EYE...OR ABOUT 19 MILES NORTHWEST OF ST JAMES...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SLEEPY EYE... LEAVENWORTH... HANSKA... SEARLES... 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 4431 9492 4413 9492 4414 9439 4439 9465 $$ JPR
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 092102 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 400 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2005 MNC015-092110- /O.CAN.KMPX.SV.W.0283.000000T0000Z-050809T2115Z/ BROWN MN- 400 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR BROWN COUNTY IS CANCELLED... RADAR INDICATED THAT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAD WEAKENED IN THE AREA AROUND HANSKA...ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTH OF NEW ULM. THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. SMALL HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING ARE STILL POSSIBLE. LAT...LON 4431 9492 4413 9492 4414 9439 4439 9465 $$ TDK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 1:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 39 min |
| Aug 9, 3:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 41 min |
| Aug 9, 3:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Todd | 57 min |
| Aug 9, 4:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 60 min |
| Aug 9, 5:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kanabec, Mille Lacs | 44 min |
| Aug 9, 2:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin | 49 min |
| Aug 9, 2:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sibley | 42 min |
| Aug 9, 2:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Redwood | 38 min |
| Aug 9, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Scott | 47 min |
| Aug 9, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Hennepin | 64 min |
| Aug 9, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Nicollet | 73 min |
| Aug 9, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Scott | 45 min |
| Aug 9, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice | 65 min |
| Aug 9, 3:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Nicollet | 34 min |
| Aug 9, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Washington | 59 min |
| Aug 9, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Waseca | 61 min |
| Aug 9, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Martin | 39 min |
| Aug 9, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 65 min |
| Aug 9, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Steele | 46 min |
| Aug 9, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault | 70 min |
| Aug 9, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Waseca | 25 min |
| Aug 9, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 50 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.