Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 417, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 21, 2005, 9:27 PM CDT for Kandiyohi County, Meeker County, Minnesota. It was in force for 63 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, 9:27 PM CDT (02:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 21, 2005, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Kandiyohi County, MN, Meeker County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:29 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 9:58 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Cosmos, 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, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 98 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 220227 SVRMPX MNC067-093-220330- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0417.050922T0227Z-050922T0330Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 927 PM CDT WED SEP 21 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KANDIYOHI COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA MEEKER COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1030 PM CDT * AT 924 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 21 MILES WEST OF LITCHFIELD...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WILLMAR...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... LITCHFIELD... COSMOS... ATWATER... STROUT... CEDAR MILLS... STAY INDOORS...AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4508 9504 4490 9500 4491 9452 4522 9451 $$ KAT
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 220301 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1000 PM CDT WED SEP 21 2005 MNC067-220310- /O.CAN.KMPX.SV.W.0417.000000T0000Z-050922T0330Z/ KANDIYOHI MN- 1000 PM CDT WED SEP 21 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR KANDIYOHI COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE SEVERE STORM HAS MOVED EAST OF KANDIYOHI COUNTY. LAT...LON 4504 9470 4491 9470 4491 9452 4506 9452 $$ MNC093-220330- /O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0417.000000T0000Z-050922T0330Z/ MEEKER MN- 1000 PM CDT WED SEP 21 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1030 PM CDT FOR MEEKER COUNTY... AT 959 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...AND THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CORVUSO...OR ABOUT 11 MILES WEST OF HUTCHINSON...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM PRODUCED THREE QUARTER INCH SIZE HAIL NEAR COSMOS AT 958 PM. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE STROUT...COSMOS AND CEDAR MILLS. LAT...LON 4504 9470 4491 9470 4491 9452 4506 9452 $$ KAT/BAP
The 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, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Washington | 53 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, 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 |
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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.