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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 427, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 4, 2005, 4:32 PM CDT for Martin County, Minnesota. It was in force for 58 min. 2 reports 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
- Oct 4, 2005, 4:32 PM CDT (21:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 4, 2005, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Martin County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 4:51 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | Fairmont, MN | MEASURED WIND AT KSUM RADIO. |
| Oct 4, 4:55 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 58 | Fairmont, MN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 1230 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 492 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 042133 SVRMPX MNC091-042230- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0427.051004T2132Z-051004T2230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 432 PM CDT TUE OCT 4 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MARTIN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 428 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FAIRMONT...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... FAIRMONT... CEYLON... EAST CHAIN... WELCOME... 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 4351 9475 4351 9426 4384 9424 4385 9462 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 56 min |
| Oct 4, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault | 67 min |
| Oct 4, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Martin | 60 min |
| Oct 4, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 55 min |
| Oct 4, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth | 59 min |
| Oct 4, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver | 35 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.