Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 433, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 4, 2005, 6:26 PM CDT for Carver County, Minnesota. It was in force for 35 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
- Oct 4, 2005, 6:26 PM CDT (23:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 4, 2005, 7:01 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Carver County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:28 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 16 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 042326
SVRMPX
MNC019-050030-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0433.051004T2326Z-051005T0030Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
626 PM CDT TUE OCT 4 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CARVER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 730 PM CDT
* AT 624 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES
SOUTH OF WACONIA...OR ABOUT 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EXCELSIOR...AND
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WACONIA...
HAMBURG...
COLOGNE...
CARVER...
CHASKA...
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 4474 9396 4467 9378 4472 9365 4488 9354
4489 9377 4497 9390
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS53 KMPX 050001
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
702 PM CDT TUE OCT 4 2005
MNC019-050012-
/O.CAN.KMPX.SV.W.0433.000000T0000Z-051005T0030Z/
CARVER MN-
702 PM CDT TUE OCT 4 2005
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CARVER COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM HAD WEAKENED TO BELOW SEVERE LIMITS.
THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
LAT...LON 4474 9396 4467 9378 4472 9365 4488 9354
4489 9377 4497 9390
$$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, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth | 59 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.