Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 349, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 4, 2005, 1:27 AM CDT for McLeod County, Meeker County, Minnesota. It was in force for 63 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 4, 2005, 1:27 AM CDT (06:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 4, 2005, 2:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:29 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.
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, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 322 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
- 1333 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2847 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 040628 SVRMPX MNC085-093-040730- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0349.050904T0627Z-050904T0730Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 127 AM CDT SUN SEP 4 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MEEKER COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA MCLEOD COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 230 AM CDT * AT 125 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF SILVER LAKE...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTH OF HUTCHINSON. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SILVER LAKE... RURAL AREAS BETWEEN HUTCHINSON AND DASSEL... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM THAT HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING HAIL TO TWO INCHES IN DIAMETER. 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 4506 9434 4499 9444 4487 9428 4490 9412 $$ KAT
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 040707 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 206 AM CDT SUN SEP 4 2005 MNC093-040716- /O.CAN.KMPX.SV.W.0349.000000T0000Z-050904T0730Z/ MEEKER MN- 206 AM CDT SUN SEP 4 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR MEEKER COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR MEEKER COUNTY HAS MOVED OUT OF THE COUNTY. THEREFORE...THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. LAT...LON 4497 9413 4498 9427 4488 9428 4487 9410 $$ MNC085-040730- /O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0349.000000T0000Z-050904T0730Z/ MCLEOD MN- 206 AM CDT SUN SEP 4 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 230 AM CDT FOR MCLEOD COUNTY... AT 203 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...AND THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SILVER LAKE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF HUTCHINSON...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY. LAT...LON 4497 9413 4498 9427 4488 9428 4487 9410 $$ KAT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker, Wright | 54 min |
| Sep 3, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 46 min |
| Sep 3, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 67 min |
| Sep 3, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker | 60 min |
| Sep 3, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota | 65 min |
| Sep 3, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Wright | 56 min |
| Sep 3, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Scott | 64 min |
| Sep 3, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Renville | 66 min |
| Sep 3, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 63 min |
| Sep 3, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker | 65 min |
| Sep 3, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota | 64 min |
| Sep 3, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Rice | 55 min |
| Sep 3, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Scott | 65 min |
| Sep 3, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sibley | 55 min |
| Sep 3, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 61 min |
| Sep 3, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Renville | 59 min |
| Sep 3, 10:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Rice | 54 min |
| Sep 3, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sibley | 62 min |
| Sep 3, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod | 62 min |
| Sep 3, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sibley | 65 min |
| Sep 4, 12:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Meeker | 54 min |
| Sep 4, 1:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | McLeod, Meeker | 3 hr |
| Sep 4, 1:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wright | 67 min |
| Sep 4, 1:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Sherburne | 63 min |
| Sep 4, 2:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 65 min |
| Sep 4, 2:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod | 63 min |
| Sep 4, 2:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver | 55 min |
| Sep 4, 2:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Sherburne, Wright | 63 min |
| Sep 4, 3:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Sherburne | 63 min |
| Sep 4, 4:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 53 min |
| Sep 4, 4:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver | 64 min |
| Sep 4, 4:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin | 3 hr |
| Sep 4, 4:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Scott | 54 min |
| Sep 4, 5:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Carver, Scott | 3 hr |
| Sep 4, 5:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 65 min |
| Sep 4, 5:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver | 59 min |
| Sep 4, 5:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Scott | 56 min |
| Sep 4, 5:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Ramsey | 3 hr |
| Sep 4, 6:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Hennepin | 65 min |
| Sep 4, 6:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Scott | 63 min |
| Sep 4, 6:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Rice, Steele | 4 hr |
| Sep 4, 6:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005
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.