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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 7, 2005Redwood County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2005, 4:40 AM CDT for Redwood County, Minnesota. It was in force for 35 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
Jun 7, 2005, 4:40 AM CDT (09:40 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 2005, 5:15 AM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Redwood County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 142 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 2005-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 949 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 2005-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 207 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
949 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-147 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1731 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
207 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
369 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
4.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 070940
SVRMPX
MNC127-071015-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0038.050607T0940Z-050607T1015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
440 AM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  REDWOOD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 515 AM CDT

* AT 436 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS
  LOCATED 27 MILES SOUTHWEST OF REDWOOD FALLS...OR ABOUT 25 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF SLAYTON...AND MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  WABASSO...
  REDWOOD FALLS...

LAT...LON 4420 9556 4421 9513 4428 9512 4430 9489
      4450 9489 4467 9534 4454 9536 4453 9557

$$
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS53 KMPX 070955
SVSMPX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
454 AM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005

MNC127-071015-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0038.000000T0000Z-050607T1015Z/
REDWOOD MN-
454 AM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 515 AM CDT FOR
REDWOOD COUNTY...

AT 451 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE 
THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. 
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 3 MILES SOUTH OF WABASSO AND WAS MOVING 
NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE CLEMENTS...MORGAN AND REDWOOD 
FALLS. 

LAT...LON 4420 9556 4421 9513 4428 9512 4430 9489
      4450 9489 4467 9534 4454 9536 4453 9557

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 4:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXPope, Stevens, Swift59 min
Jun 7, 4:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXChippewa, Renville, Yellow Medicine47 min
Jun 7, 5:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBrown36 min
Jun 7, 5:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRedwood, Renville30 min
Jun 7, 5:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXSibley52 min
Jun 7, 7:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRamsey, Washington39 min
Jun 7, 4:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXGoodhue55 min
Jun 7, 5:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXGoodhue66 min
Jun 7, 6:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBlue Earth, Faribault54 min
Jun 7, 6:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXGoodhue61 min
Jun 7, 6:29 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXBlue Earth31 min
Jun 7, 6:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRice, Steele70 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.