Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 374, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 12, 2005, 6:16 AM CDT for Stearns County, Minnesota. It was in force for 59 min. 4 reports 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 12, 2005, 6:16 AM CDT (11:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 12, 2005, 7:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Stearns County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 12, 6:36 AM CDT | HAIL 1 | Greenwald, MN | |
| Sep 12, 6:41 AM CDT | HAIL 1 | Freeport, MN | |
| Sep 12, 6:41 AM CDT | HAIL 1 | Freeport, MN | |
| Sep 12, 6:41 AM CDT | HAIL 1 | New Munich, MN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 181 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -182 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1889 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS53 KMPX 121116
SVRMPX
MNC145-121215-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0374.050912T1116Z-050912T1215Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
616 AM CDT MON SEP 12 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
STEARNS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 715 AM CDT
* AT 611 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 17 MILES
SOUTH OF SAUK CENTRE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SAUK CENTRE...
ALBANY...
GREENWALD...
MELROSE...
STAY INDOORS...AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
LAT...LON 4560 9512 4543 9512 4544 9469 4577 9431
4578 9463 4576 9512
$$
RAH1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS53 KMPX 121141
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
640 AM CDT MON SEP 12 2005
MNC145-121215-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0374.000000T0000Z-050912T1215Z/
STEARNS MN-
640 AM CDT MON SEP 12 2005
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 AM CDT
FOR STEARNS COUNTY...
AT 636 AM...HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS WAS REPORTED BY STATE POLICE
IN GREENWALD WITH THIS STORM.
AT 638 AM CDT...THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GREENWALD...AND MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE MELROSE...NEW MUNICH AND ST
ROSA.
LAT...LON 4560 9512 4543 9512 4544 9469 4577 9431
4578 9463 4576 9512
$$
RAHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 7:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 66 min |
| Sep 12, 7:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 31 min |
| Sep 12, 8:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Mille Lacs | 31 min |
| Sep 12, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 67 min |
| Sep 12, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine | 59 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.