Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 327, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 3, 2005, 6:56 PM CDT for Stearns County, Minnesota. It was in force for 64 min. 1 report 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, 6:56 PM CDT (23:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2005, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 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), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 7:25 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | Rockville, MN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 308 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 032358
SVRMPX
MNC145-040100-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0327.050903T2356Z-050904T0100Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
656 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 800 PM CDT
* AT 654 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES
EAST OF ALBANY...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF ST CLOUD...AND
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR ALSO INDICATED ANOTHER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM
WAS LOCATED OVER ELROSA...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ROSCOE...
COLLEGEVILLE...
RICHMOND...
ST JOSEPH...
COLD SPRING...
WAITE PARK...
ROCKVILLE...
PLEASANT LAKE...
STAY INDOORS...AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
LAT...LON 4579 9438 4570 9466 4557 9511 4544 9511
4540 9439 4551 9414
$$
RAH1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS53 KMPX 040032
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
730 PM CDT SAT SEP 3 2005
MNC145-040100-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0327.000000T0000Z-050904T0100Z/
STEARNS MN-
730 PM CDT SAT SEP 3 2005
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT
FOR STEARNS COUNTY...
AT 725 PM...GOLF BALL HAIL WAS REPORTED IN ROCKVILLE.
AT 730 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...NEAR LUXEMBURG...OR ABOUT 9
MILES SOUTH OF ST CLOUD...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. DOPPLER
RADAR ALSO INDICATE ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
LARGE HAIL NEAR ST JOSEPH. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE ST NICHOLAS...ST AUGUSTA...
PADUA...GEORGEVILLE...FARMING...COLLEGEVILLE...WAITE PARK...ST
MARTIN...ST JOSEPH...ST CLOUD...SPRING HILL...SARTELL...ROSCOE...
ROCKVILLE...RICHMOND...PLEASANT LAKE...NEW MUNICH...LAKE HENRY...
GREENWALD...ELROSA...COLD SPRING...AVON AND ALBANY.
LAT...LON 4570 9423 4564 9471 4557 9511 4544 9511
4542 9476 4531 9425 4551 9414
$$
RAHThe 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, 5:02 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 |
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.