Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 295, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2005, 5:09 PM CDT for Freeborn County, Minnesota. It was in force for 50 min. 1 report 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 9, 2005, 5:09 PM CDT (22:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2005, 5:59 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Freeborn County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 9, 5:15 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Albert Lea, MN | TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN. |
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 9, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 128 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 092210 SVRMPX MNC047-092315- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0295.050809T2209Z-050809T2315Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 509 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... FREEBORN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 505 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF ALBERT LEA TO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ALBERT LEA...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ALBERT LEA... CONGER... ALDEN... FREEBORN... HARTLAND... MANCHESTER... CLARKS GROVE... STAY INDOORS...AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4384 9360 4351 9369 4351 9304 4384 9304 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KMPX 092233 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 532 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2005 MNC047-092315- /O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0295.000000T0000Z-050809T2315Z/ FREEBORN MN- 532 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR FREEBORN COUNTY... DAMAGING WINDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN FREEBORN COUNTY. TREES... POWER LINES AND BRANCHES WERE REPORTED DOWN...SOME IN ALBERT LEA. REPORTS WERE STILL SKETCHY AS TO HOW MANY TREES HAVE BEEN DOWNED... OR SPECIFIC LOCATIONS. BUT RADAR SHOWED DAMAGING WINDS WERE STILL POSSIBLE IN EASTERN AND SOUTHERN FREEBORN COUNTY. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM... SEEK SAFE SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AT 526 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF ALBERT LEA...TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF ALBERT LEA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. EXPECT WINDS OF 60 TO 70 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE MYRTLE...HOLLANDALE... HAYWARD...AND GLENVILLE. LAT...LON 4384 9360 4351 9369 4351 9304 4384 9304 $$
000 WWUS53 KMPX 092259 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 557 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2005 MNC047-092304- /O.CAN.KMPX.SV.W.0295.000000T0000Z-050809T2315Z/ FREEBORN MN- 557 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR FREEBORN COUNTY IS CANCELLED... RADAR INDICATED THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA. THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. NO FURTHER REPORTS OF DAMAGE HAVE BEEN RECEIVED...BUT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WILL BE ISSUED THROUGH LOCAL STORM REPORT PRODUCTS. LAT...LON 4384 9360 4351 9369 4351 9304 4384 9304 $$ JPR
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, 4:02 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 |
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.