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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 7, 2005Sibley County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2005, 5:59 AM CDT for Sibley County, Minnesota. It was in force for 52 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, 5:59 AM CDT (10:59 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 2005, 6:51 AM CDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Sibley County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 60 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°0°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 071100
SVRMPX
MNC143-071145-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0041.050607T1059Z-050607T1145Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SIBLEY COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 645 AM CDT

* AT 556 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES
  WEST OF GAYLORD...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH OF NEW ULM...AND MOVING
  EAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  WINTHROP...
  GAYLORD...
  ARLINGTON...

LAT...LON 4459 9452 4446 9445 4448 9393 4472 9390
      4463 9423

$$
2 follow-up statements
000 
WWUS53 KMPX 071123
SVSMPX

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

MNC143-071145-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0041.000000T0000Z-050607T1145Z/
SIBLEY MN-
623 AM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 645 AM CDT FOR
SIBLEY COUNTY...

AT 621 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...AND THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR ARLINGTON...OR ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HUTCHINSON...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE NEW ROME...NEW SWEDEN...
WINTHROP...GREEN ISLE AND GAYLORD.

LAT...LON 4459 9452 4446 9445 4448 9393 4472 9390
      4463 9423

$$

JPR
000 
WWUS53 KMPX 071151
SVSMPX

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

MNC143-071200-
/O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0041.000000T0000Z-050607T1145Z/
SIBLEY MN-
650 AM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SIBLEY COUNTY EXPIRED AT 645 
AM CDT...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED AND MOVED OUT OF THE COUNTY AND 
A WARNING WILL NOT BE REISSUED. 

LAT...LON 4459 9452 4446 9445 4448 9393 4472 9390
      4463 9423

$$

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, 4:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRedwood35 min
Jun 7, 5:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBrown36 min
Jun 7, 5:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRedwood, Renville30 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.