Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 306, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 2005, 10:43 PM CDT for Stearns 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, 10:43 PM CDT (03:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2005, 11:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Stearns County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 129 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 260343 SVRMPX MNC145-260445- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0306.050826T0343Z-050826T0445Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1043 PM CDT THU AUG 25 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... STEARNS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1145 PM CDT * AT 1040 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 28 MILES WEST OF ALBANY...OR ABOUT 11 MILES EAST OF GLENWOOD...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ALBANY... MELROSE... SPRING HILL... FARMING... PADUA... STAY INDOORS...AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4571 9513 4550 9513 4548 9436 4575 9436 $$ KAT
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KMPX 260413 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1113 PM CDT THU AUG 25 2005 MNC145-260445- /O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0306.000000T0000Z-050826T0445Z/ STEARNS MN- 1113 PM CDT THU AUG 25 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1145 PM CDT FOR STEARNS COUNTY... AT 1110 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...AND THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PADUA...OR ABOUT 14 MILES EAST OF GLENWOOD...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE SPRING HILL...NEW MUNICH... MELROSE...MEIRE GROVE...GREENWALD AND ELROSA. LAT...LON 4571 9513 4550 9513 4547 9467 4575 9473 $$ KAT
000 WWUS53 KMPX 260435 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1134 PM CDT THU AUG 25 2005 MNC145-260444- /O.CAN.KMPX.SV.W.0306.000000T0000Z-050826T0445Z/ STEARNS MN- 1134 PM CDT THU AUG 25 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR STEARNS COUNTY IS CANCELLED... RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM HAD WEAKENED TO BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. PEA SIZE HAIL WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE IN LOCATIONS BETWEEN BROOTEN AND SAUK CENTRE THROUGH MIDNIGHT. LAT...LON 4571 9513 4550 9513 4547 9467 4575 9473 $$ 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, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Todd | 52 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 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.