Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2005, 8:12 PM CDT for Douglas County, Pope County, Minnesota. It was in force for 59 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, 8:12 PM CDT (01:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2005, 9:11 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Douglas County, MN, Pope County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 178 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 1:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| May 8, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 090112 SVRMPX MNC041-121-090215- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0029.050509T0112Z-050509T0215Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 812 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DOUGLAS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA POPE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 808 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 14 MILES WEST OF GLENWOOD...OR ABOUT 12 MILES EAST OF MORRIS...AND MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... GLENWOOD... ALEXANDRIA... LOWRY... HOLMES... KENSINGTON... EVANSVILLE... DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED SOME WEAK ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM. WHILE NOT IMMEDIATELY LIKELY...A TORNADO MAY STILL DEVELOP. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. LAT...LON 4544 9572 4545 9516 4609 9516 4609 9572 $$ RAH
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KMPX 090134 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 833 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2005 MNC041-121-090215- /O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0029.000000T0000Z-050509T0215Z/ DOUGLAS MN-POPE MN- 833 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR POPE AND DOUGLAS COUNTIES... AT 824 PM...DIME SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN TERRACE WITH THIS STORM. AT 830 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GLENWOOD...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 25 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE ROSE CITY...LEAF VALLEY... HOLMES...GROVE LAKE...BELLE RIVER...VILLARD...STARBUCK...SEDAN... OSAKIS...NELSON...MILTONA...MILLERVILLE...LOWRY...LONG BEACH... KENSINGTON...GARFIELD...FORADA...FARWELL...EVANSVILLE...CARLOS... BRANDON AND ALEXANDRIA. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN MINNESOTA. LAT...LON 4544 9572 4545 9516 4609 9516 4609 9572 $$ RAH
000 WWUS53 KMPX 090211 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 910 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2005 MNC041-121-090220- /O.CAN.KMPX.SV.W.0029.000000T0000Z-050509T0215Z/ DOUGLAS MN-POPE MN- 910 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR POPE AND DOUGLAS COUNTIES IS CANCELLED... RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM HAD WEAKENED TO BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. LAT...LON 4544 9572 4545 9516 4609 9516 4609 9572 $$ RAH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Swift | 65 min |
| May 8, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice | 26 min |
| May 8, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle | 33 min |
| May 8, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott and 2 more | 53 min |
| May 9, 5:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Scott, Sibley | 38 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.