Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2005, 2:37 PM CDT for Blue Earth County, Le Sueur County, Nicollet County, Minnesota. It was in force for 38 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 26, 2005, 2:37 PM CDT (19:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2005, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Blue Earth County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Nicollet County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1200 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 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 261939
SVRMPX
MNC013-079-103-262015-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0030.050526T1937Z-050526T2015Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
237 PM CDT THU MAY 26 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN LE SUEUR COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
SOUTHERN NICOLLET COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
BLUE EARTH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 315 PM CDT
* AT 236 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM
WAS LOCATED 7 MILES WEST OF MANKATO...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MANKATO...
NORTH MANKATO...
KASOTA...
EAGLE LAKE...
MADISON LAKE...
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 9424 4404 9434 4397 9385 4411 9381
4429 9380
$$
TDK1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS53 KMPX 261957
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
256 PM CDT THU MAY 26 2005
MNC013-079-103-262015-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0030.000000T0000Z-050526T2015Z/
LE SUEUR MN-NICOLLET MN-BLUE EARTH MN-
256 PM CDT THU MAY 26 2005
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 315 PM CDT FOR BLUE
EARTH...NICOLLET AND LE SUEUR COUNTIES...
AT 253 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ST PETER...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE ST CLAIR...SKYLINE...NORTH
MANKATO...MANKATO...MADISON LAKE...LE CENTER...KASOTA...EAGLE LAKE
AND CLEVELAND.
LAT...LON 4433 9411 4405 9421 4399 9382 4411 9381
4439 9372
$$
JPRThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Rice | 64 min |
| May 26, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Scott, Sibley | 58 min |
| May 26, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Ramsey, Washington | 24 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005
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.