Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 303, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 2005, 8:23 PM CDT for Todd County, Minnesota. It was in force for 52 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 25, 2005, 8:23 PM CDT (01:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2005, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Todd County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 194 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 1374 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 766 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 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 260124 SVRMPX MNC153-260215- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0303.050826T0123Z-050826T0215Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 823 PM CDT THU AUG 25 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... TODD COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 821 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 20 MILES WEST OF STAPLES...OR ABOUT 27 MILES NORTHWEST OF LONG PRAIRIE...AND MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... STAPLES... HEWITT... BERTHA... THIS STORM WILL AFFECT MAINLY FAR NORTHWESTERN SECTIONS OF TODD COUNTY...AND WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS. STAY INDOORS...AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4636 9514 4617 9515 4619 9470 4637 9475 $$ KAT
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 260150 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 850 PM CDT THU AUG 25 2005 MNC153-260215- /O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0303.000000T0000Z-050826T0215Z/ TODD MN- 850 PM CDT THU AUG 25 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR TODD COUNTY... AT 848 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BERTHA...OR ABOUT 21 MILES NORTHWEST OF LONG PRAIRIE...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE PHILBROOK...HEWITT AND EAGLE BEND. LAT...LON 4636 9514 4613 9514 4611 9466 4634 9467 $$ KAT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 49 min |
| Aug 25, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 63 min |
| Aug 25, 10:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Douglas | 2 hr |
| Aug 25, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope | 38 min |
| Aug 25, 10:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Pope | 3 hr |
| Aug 25, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 52 min |
| Aug 26, 12:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Swift | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 12:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 61 min |
| Aug 26, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker | 60 min |
| Aug 26, 1:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns, Wright | 61 min |
| Aug 26, 1:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 3:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Stearns | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 3:09 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 3:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Swift | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 4:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 3 hr |
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.