Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2005, 3:04 PM CDT for McLeod County, Minnesota. It was in force for 34 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, 3:04 PM CDT (20:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2005, 3:38 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County McLeod County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 201 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -157 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 929 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 052006 SVRMPX MNC085-052045- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0035.050605T2004Z-050605T2045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 304 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MCLEOD COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 345 PM CDT * AT 303 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HUTCHINSON...AND MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... HUTCHINSON... SILVER LAKE... STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4496 9452 4478 9449 4483 9419 4498 9418 $$ TDK
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 052038 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 337 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 2005 MNC085-052050- /O.CAN.KMPX.SV.W.0035.000000T0000Z-050605T2045Z/ MCLEOD MN- 337 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR MCLEOD COUNTY IS CANCELLED... RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM HAD WEAKENED TO BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. PEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED JUST NORTHWEST OF HUTCHINSON AT 315 PM...BUT NOW ONLY BRIEF BOUTS OF HEAVY RAIN ARE EXPECTED IN MCLEOD COUNTY. LAT...LON 4496 9452 4478 9449 4483 9419 4498 9418 $$ TDK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 2:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Nicollet, Sibley | 42 min |
| Jun 5, 4:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Washington | 42 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.