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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 366, NWS Twin Cities, MN

September 5, 2005Douglas County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 5, 2005, 10:20 PM CDT for Douglas County, Minnesota. It was in force for 40 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 5, 2005, 10:20 PM CDT (03:20 UTC)
Expired
Sep 5, 2005, 11:00 PM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Douglas County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 188 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:20 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Sep 5, 10:21 PM CDTHAIL 0.88Holmes, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 5, 8:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 254 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2005-09-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 239 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2005-09-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -24 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
239 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1970 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-14 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 060320
SVRMPX
MNC041-060400-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0366.050906T0320Z-050906T0400Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1020 PM CDT MON SEP 5 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DOUGLAS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT

* AT 1015 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS
  LOCATED 9 MILES WEST OF ALEXANDRIA...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  ALEXANDRIA...
  NELSON...
  FORADA...

STAY INDOORS...AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 4594 9566 4576 9564 4578 9517 4602 9518

$$

MKM

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 5, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXChippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift45 min
Sep 5, 10:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXYellow Medicine62 min
Sep 5, 10:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMorrison, Todd55 min
Sep 5, 10:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXChippewa, Kandiyohi, Renville62 min
Sep 5, 11:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMeeker63 min
Sep 5, 11:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXKanabec, Mille Lacs40 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.