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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 370, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 5, 2005, 11:12 PM CDT for 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 5, 2005, 11:12 PM CDT (04:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 2005, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Meeker County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 303 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 060412 SVRMPX MNC093-060515- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0370.050906T0412Z-050906T0515Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1112 PM CDT MON SEP 5 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MEEKER COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1215 AM CDT * AT 1107 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LITCHFIELD AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... LITCHFIELD... COSMOS... DARWIN... GROVE CITY... ROSENDALE... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...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 4518 9475 4490 9475 4501 9426 4528 9426 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KMPX 060428 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1128 PM CDT MON SEP 5 2005 MNC093-060515- /O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0370.000000T0000Z-050906T0515Z/ MEEKER MN- 1128 PM CDT MON SEP 5 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1215 AM CDT FOR MEEKER COUNTY... AT 1124 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF GROVE CITY TO COSMOS...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE STROUT...CORVUSO...WESTPORT... LITCHFIELD...KINGSTON...DASSEL AND DARWIN. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4528 9476 4490 9475 4501 9426 4528 9426 $$
000 WWUS53 KMPX 060515 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1213 AM CDT TUE SEP 6 2005 MNC093-060523- /O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0370.000000T0000Z-050906T0515Z/ MEEKER MN- 1213 AM CDT TUE SEP 6 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR MEEKER COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 1215 AM CDT... THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER MEEKER COUNTY HAVE WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. THEREFORE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. HOWEVER...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN OVER EASTERN MEEKER COUNTY FROM KINGSTON TO DARWIN TO CEDAR MILLS. WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF DIMES WILL BE POSSIBLE. LAT...LON 4528 9476 4490 9475 4501 9426 4528 9426 $$ 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, 10:50 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, 11:56 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.