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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 368, NWS Twin Cities, MN

September 5, 2005Morrison County, Todd County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 5, 2005, 10:50 PM CDT for Morrison County, Todd County, Minnesota. It was in force for 55 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 5, 2005, 10:50 PM CDT (03:50 UTC)
Expired: Sep 5, 2005, 11:45 PM CDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Morrison County, MN, Todd County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 176 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:50 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 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

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 291 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 807 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -197 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1413 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 197 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 060350
SVRMPX
MNC097-153-060445-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0368.050906T0350Z-050906T0445Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1050 PM CDT MON SEP 5 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  TODD COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  MORRISON COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 1145 PM CDT

* AT 1045 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS
  LOCATED 14 MILES WEST OF LONG PRAIRIE...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHEAST
  OF ALEXANDRIA...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  LONG PRAIRIE...
  STAPLES...
  LITTLE FALLS...
  BROWERVILLE...
  EAGLE BEND...

LAT...LON 4636 9514 4579 9512 4580 9435 4630 9437
      4636 9478

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KMPX 060445
SVSMPX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1144 PM CDT MON SEP 5 2005

MNC097-153-060454-
/O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0368.000000T0000Z-050906T0445Z/
TODD MN-MORRISON MN-
1144 PM CDT MON SEP 5 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR MORRISON AND TODD COUNTIES
WILL EXPIRE AT 1145 PM CDT...

ALTHOUGH THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM RANDALL TO GREY EAGLE AT 
11:45 PM THEY HAVE WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. THEREFORE THE 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR MORRISON AND TODD COUNTIES WILL BE 
ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. 

LAT...LON 4636 9514 4579 9512 4580 9435 4630 9437
      4636 9478

$$

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, 10:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Douglas	40 min
Sep 5, 10:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Yellow Medicine	62 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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2005 Every 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.