Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2005, 2:48 AM CDT for Brown County, Nicollet County, Sibley County, Minnesota. It was in force for 42 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
- Jun 5, 2005, 2:48 AM CDT (07:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2005, 3:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Brown County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Sibley County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:50 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 880 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS53 KMPX 050748
SVRMPX
MNC015-103-143-050830-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0034.050605T0748Z-050605T0830Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
248 AM CDT SUN JUN 5 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SIBLEY COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
BROWN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
NICOLLET COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 330 AM CDT
* AT 246 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SLEEPY
EYE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEW ULM...AND MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 30 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
NEW ULM...
LAT...LON 4422 9481 4415 9457 4460 9425 4463 9449
4470 9456
$$
WET1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS53 KMPX 050811
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
310 AM CDT SUN JUN 5 2005
MNC015-103-143-050830-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0034.000000T0000Z-050605T0830Z/
SIBLEY MN-BROWN MN-NICOLLET MN-
310 AM CDT SUN JUN 5 2005
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 330 AM CDT FOR
NICOLLET...BROWN AND SIBLEY COUNTIES...
AT 308 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...AND THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR ST GEORGE...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF NEW ULM...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE KLOSSNER...WINTHROP...SLEEPY
EYE...LAFAYETTE AND GIBBON.
LAT...LON 4422 9481 4415 9457 4460 9425 4463 9449
4470 9456
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod | 34 min |
| Jun 5, 4:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Washington | 42 min |
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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.