Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 312, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 3, 2005, 2:13 PM CDT for Stearns County, Minnesota. It was in force for 62 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
- Sep 3, 2005, 2:13 PM CDT (19:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2005, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 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), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 299 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 031913 SVRMPX MNC145-032015- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0312.050903T1913Z-050903T2015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 213 PM CDT SAT SEP 3 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... STEARNS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 315 PM CDT * AT 211 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SAUK CENTRE...OR ABOUT 21 MILES SOUTH OF LONG PRAIRIE...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ALBANY... MELROSE... ST. ROSA... LAT...LON 4577 9503 4555 9504 4548 9429 4574 9426 $$ BAP
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 031940 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 236 PM CDT SAT SEP 3 2005 MNC145-032015- /O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0312.000000T0000Z-050903T2015Z/ STEARNS MN- 236 PM CDT SAT SEP 3 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 PM CDT FOR STEARNS COUNTY... AT 228 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...AND THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR NEW MUNICH...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SAUK CENTRE...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL WAS ALSO MOVING EAST INTO WESTERN STEARNS COUNTY NEAR PADUA OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF SAUK CENTRE. LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS INCLUDE FARMING... ST MARTIN...SPRING HILL...RICHMOND...MELROSE...MEIRE GROVE...PADUA...GREENWALD...FREEPORT...AVON...ELROSA...AND ALBANY. LAT...LON 4575 9490 4551 9494 4540 9447 4564 9439 $$ MKM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 1:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 48 min |
| Sep 3, 1:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker | 31 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.