Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 376, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 12, 2005, 7:14 AM CDT for Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. It was in force for 31 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 12, 2005, 7:14 AM CDT (12:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 12, 2005, 7:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kandiyohi County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 7:35 AM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 5 Nw Spicer, 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 12:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 858 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1027 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 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 121214 SVRMPX MNC067-121245- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0376.050912T1214Z-050912T1245Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 714 AM CDT MON SEP 12 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KANDIYOHI COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 745 AM CDT * AT 711 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTH OF SUNBURG...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF WILLMAR...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SUNBURG... NEW LONDON... REGAL... STAY INDOORS...AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4521 9524 4522 9500 4541 9478 4541 9526 $$ RAH
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 121246 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 745 AM CDT MON SEP 12 2005 MNC067-121255- /O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0376.000000T0000Z-050912T1245Z/ KANDIYOHI MN- 745 AM CDT MON SEP 12 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR KANDIYOHI COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 745 AM CDT... THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE FROM REGAL TO NEW LONDON TO SPICER TO WILLMAR AT 7:45 AM. HOWEVER THE STORMS HAVE WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. RESIDENTS IN EASTERN KANDIYOHI COUNTY CAN EXPECT HALF INCH SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH THROUGH 8:30 AM AS THE STORMS MOVE EAST. LAT...LON 4521 9524 4522 9500 4541 9478 4541 9526 $$ RAH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 6:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 59 min |
| Sep 12, 7:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 66 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 |
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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.