Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 404, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 21, 2005, 7:22 PM CDT for Dakota County, Washington County, Minnesota. It was in force for 53 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 21, 2005, 7:22 PM CDT (00:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 21, 2005, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Dakota County, MN, Washington County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 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 21, 7:40 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Lake Elmo, MN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 21, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 54 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
- 2043 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1714 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 274 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 406 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 9.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS53 KMPX 220023
SVRMPX
MNC037-163-220115-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0404.050922T0022Z-050922T0115Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
722 PM CDT WED SEP 21 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
DAKOTA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 815 PM CDT
* AT 720 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 65
MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 15 MILES
NORTH OF STILLWATER TO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF STILLWATER...AND
MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
STILLWATER...
EAGAN...
INVER GROVE HEIGHTS...
WOODBURY...
LAKE ELMO...
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 4529 9294 4489 9297 4488 9317 4457 9301
4478 9283 4529 9275
$$
KAT/BAPThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Ramsey | 53 min |
| Sep 21, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin | 52 min |
| Sep 21, 7:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Ramsey | 44 min |
| Sep 21, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago | 58 min |
| Sep 21, 7:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Washington | 27 min |
| Sep 21, 7:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Ramsey, Washington | 3 hr |
| Sep 21, 7:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 3 hr |
| Sep 21, 7:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Anoka | 3 hr |
| Sep 21, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin, Ramsey | 63 min |
| Sep 21, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sherburne, Wright | 67 min |
| Sep 21, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Washington | 64 min |
| Sep 21, 8:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Sherburne | 3 hr |
| Sep 21, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 22 min |
| Sep 21, 8:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Wright | 3 hr |
| Sep 21, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 39 min |
| Sep 21, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker | 63 min |
| Sep 21, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod | 35 min |
| Sep 21, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver | 33 min |
| Sep 21, 11:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Scott | 25 min |
| Sep 21, 11:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota | 41 min |
| Sep 21, 11:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice | 38 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.