Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 431, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 4, 2005, 6:01 PM CDT for Blue Earth County, Minnesota. It was in force for 59 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
- Oct 4, 2005, 6:01 PM CDT (23:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 4, 2005, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Blue Earth County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:03 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, 6:10 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 2 W Mapleton, MN | DIME TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORTED. |
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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 94 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 042302
SVRMPX
MNC013-050000-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0431.051004T2301Z-051005T0000Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
601 PM CDT TUE OCT 4 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
BLUE EARTH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 700 PM CDT
* AT 558 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED 23 MILES SOUTH OF MANKATO...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTH OF BLUE
EARTH...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MANKATO...
MAPLETON...
VERNON CENTER...
GOOD THUNDER...
PEMBERTON...
AMBOY...
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 4386 9422 4386 9378 4424 9377 4424 9398
4418 9401 4419 9419
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS53 KMPX 042359
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
658 PM CDT TUE OCT 4 2005
MNC013-050010-
/O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0431.000000T0000Z-051005T0000Z/
BLUE EARTH MN-
658 PM CDT TUE OCT 4 2005
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR BLUE EARTH COUNTY WILL EXPIRE
AT 700 PM CDT...
THUNDERSTORMS ARE NO LONGER SEVERE...THEREFORE THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.
LAT...LON 4386 9422 4386 9378 4424 9377 4424 9398
4418 9401 4419 9419
$$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, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Martin | 58 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, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver | 35 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.