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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 366, NWS Twin Cities, MN
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 10:21 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | Holmes, 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 5, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift | 45 min |
| Sep 5, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 62 min |
| Sep 5, 10:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison, Todd | 55 min |
| Sep 5, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Renville | 62 min |
| Sep 5, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker | 63 min |
| Sep 5, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kanabec, Mille Lacs | 40 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.