Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 392, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 13, 2005, 12:44 AM CDT for Faribault County, Minnesota. It was in force for 46 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 13, 2005, 12:44 AM CDT (05:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 13, 2005, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Faribault County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:46 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 12, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 968 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 851 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 130544 SVRMPX MNC043-130630- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0392.050913T0544Z-050913T0630Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1244 AM CDT TUE SEP 13 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... FARIBAULT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 130 AM CDT * AT 1241 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 65 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BLUE EARTH...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... FROST... BLUE EARTH... BRICELYN... BRUSH CREEK... WELLS... 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 4364 9425 4347 9418 4354 9369 4381 9368 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KMPX 130612 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 112 AM CDT TUE SEP 13 2005 MNC043-130630- /O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0392.000000T0000Z-050913T0630Z/ FARIBAULT MN- 112 AM CDT TUE SEP 13 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 130 AM CDT FOR FARIBAULT COUNTY... AT 108 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BRICELYN...OR ABOUT 18 MILES EAST OF BLUE EARTH...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE MATAWAN...BRUSH CREEK... WELLS...FROST...ELMORE AND BLUE EARTH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4364 9425 4347 9418 4354 9369 4381 9368 $$
000 WWUS53 KMPX 130629 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 129 AM CDT TUE SEP 13 2005 MNC043-130639- /O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0392.000000T0000Z-050913T0630Z/ FARIBAULT MN- 129 AM CDT TUE SEP 13 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR FARIBAULT COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 130 AM CDT... THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DECREASED BELOW SEVERE CRITERIA. LAT...LON 4364 9425 4347 9418 4354 9369 4381 9368 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 7:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine | 61 min |
| Sep 12, 7:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine | 3 hr |
| Sep 12, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Meeker, Wright | 66 min |
| Sep 12, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Renville | 57 min |
| Sep 12, 9:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Wright | 3 hr |
| Sep 12, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin, Sherburne, Wright | 65 min |
| Sep 12, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, McLeod, Meeker, Renville | 61 min |
| Sep 12, 9:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Anoka, Isanti, Sherburne | 3 hr |
| Sep 12, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Sibley | 66 min |
| Sep 12, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin, Wright | 64 min |
| Sep 12, 10:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Chisago | 3 hr |
| Sep 12, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Scott | 52 min |
| Sep 12, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Ramsey | 35 min |
| Sep 12, 11:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago, Washington | 56 min |
| Sep 12, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Martin, Watonwan | 58 min |
| Sep 13, 12:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Steele, Waseca | 64 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2005Every 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.