Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 3, 2005, 1:12 PM CDT for Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. It was in force for 48 min. 2 reports 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
- Sep 3, 2005, 1:12 PM CDT (18:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2005, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kandiyohi County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 1:25 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | Sunburg, MN | |
| Sep 3, 1:50 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | New London, MN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 266 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
- 713 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -297 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1214 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 031812 SVRMPX MNC067-031900- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0310.050903T1812Z-050903T1900Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 112 PM CDT SAT SEP 3 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KANDIYOHI COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 200 PM CDT * AT 111 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 14 MILES WEST OF NEW LONDON...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF WILLMAR...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... NEW LONDON... SPICER... REGAL... HAWICK... STAY INDOORS...AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4540 9524 4519 9524 4514 9477 4541 9479 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 031837 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 135 PM CDT SAT SEP 3 2005 MNC067-031900- /O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0310.000000T0000Z-050903T1900Z/ KANDIYOHI MN- 135 PM CDT SAT SEP 3 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM CDT FOR KANDIYOHI COUNTY... AT 125 PM...GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN SUNBURG BY LAW ENFORCEMENT. AT 133 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY LARGE HAIL. THE STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES WEST OF NEW LONDON...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTH OF WILLMAR...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE HAWICK...SPICER...REGAL AND NEW LONDON. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4541 9520 4521 9519 4522 9478 4541 9478 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 1:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker | 31 min |
| Sep 3, 2:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 62 min |
| Sep 3, 2:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Stearns | 4 hr |
| Sep 3, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 62 min |
| Sep 3, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 39 min |
| Sep 3, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 62 min |
| Sep 3, 3:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Meeker | 23 min |
| Sep 3, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Meeker | 39 min |
| Sep 3, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Wright | 62 min |
| Sep 3, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 62 min |
| Sep 3, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver | 56 min |
| Sep 3, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sibley | 55 min |
| Sep 3, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 51 min |
| Sep 3, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Todd | 60 min |
| Sep 3, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Scott | 54 min |
| Sep 3, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur | 46 min |
| Sep 3, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice | 54 min |
| Sep 3, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue, Steele | 54 min |
| Sep 3, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 65 min |
| Sep 3, 6:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Stearns | 3 hr |
| Sep 3, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 64 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.