Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 323, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 3, 2005, 5:02 PM CDT for Le Sueur County, Minnesota. It was in force for 46 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, 5:02 PM CDT (22:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2005, 5:48 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Le Sueur County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 371 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 032203 SVRMPX MNC079-032300- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0323.050903T2202Z-050903T2300Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 502 PM CDT SAT SEP 3 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LE SUEUR COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 458 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 11 MILES NORTH OF LE CENTER...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTHEAST OF ST PETER...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... LE CENTER... NEW PRAGUE... MONTGOMERY... WATERVILLE... STAY INDOORS...AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4454 9387 4446 9391 4429 9354 4453 9355 $$ RAH
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 032248 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 548 PM CDT SAT SEP 3 2005 MNC079-032258- /O.CAN.KMPX.SV.W.0323.000000T0000Z-050903T2300Z/ LE SUEUR MN- 548 PM CDT SAT SEP 3 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR LE SUEUR COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED EAST OF LE SUEUR COUNTY. THUS THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. LAT...LON 4454 9387 4446 9391 4429 9354 4453 9355 $$ BAP
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, 2:13 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, 5:06 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.