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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 290, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2005, 4:02 PM CDT for Steele County, Minnesota. It was in force for 46 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, 4:02 PM CDT (21:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2005, 4:48 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Steele County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:05 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 93 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 092103 SVRMPX MNC147-092145- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0290.050809T2102Z-050809T2145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 402 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... STEELE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 445 PM CDT * AT 401 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM OWATONNA TO ELLENDALE...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... OWATONNA... ELLENDALE... HOPE... PRATT... STAY INDOORS...AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4417 9338 4388 9339 4386 9306 4419 9308 $$ MKM
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 092148 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 447 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2005 MNC147-092158- /O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0290.000000T0000Z-050809T2145Z/ STEELE MN- 447 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR STEELE COUNTY EXPIRED AT 445 PM CDT... STORMS AROUND MUCH OF STEELE COUNTY HAVE WEAKENED. HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING WERE STILL OCCURRING...BUT HAIL AND STRONG WIND NO LONGER APPEARED TO BE A THREAT. THEREFORE THE WARNING WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. THERE WAS ANOTHER STORM SOUTH OF WASECA. IT WAS MOVING EAST. IF IT REMAINS INTENSE...A WARNING MAY BE NECESSARY AGAIN FOR STEELE COUNTY... SO STAY TUNED. LAT...LON 4417 9338 4388 9339 4386 9306 4419 9308 $$ 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, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown | 32 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, 4:08 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.