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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 7, 2005Goodhue County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2005, 4:35 PM CDT for Goodhue County, Minnesota. It was in force for 55 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, 4:35 PM CDT (21:35 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2005, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Goodhue County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 7, 2:35 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 77 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 677 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -219 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1465 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 072135
SVRMPX
MNC049-072230-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0046.050607T2135Z-050607T2230Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GOODHUE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 433 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS
  LOCATED NEAR WASTEDO...OR ABOUT 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RED WING...
  AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  GOODHUE...
  RED WING...
  WELCH...
  WASTEDO...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO
IS SPOTTED... ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY
STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.

LAT...LON 4449 9303 4432 9297 4439 9246 4457 9250

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KMPX 072213
SVSMPX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
511 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005

MNC049-072230-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0046.000000T0000Z-050607T2230Z/
GOODHUE MN-
511 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR
GOODHUE COUNTY...

AT 511 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE 
THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING 
WINDS...AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A 
LINE EXTENDING FROM CANNON FALLS TO WELCH TO RED WING. THE STORMS
WERE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST NORTHEAST 20 MPH.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO
IS SPOTTED... ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY
STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHERN MINNESOTA AND NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN.

LAT...LON 4449 9303 4431 9303 4450 9241 4457 9251
      4466 9268 4456 9279

$$
RJN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 4:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Pope, Stevens, Swift	59 min
Jun 7, 4:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Renville, Yellow Medicine	47 min
Jun 7, 4:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Redwood	35 min
Jun 7, 5:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Brown	36 min
Jun 7, 5:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Redwood, Renville	30 min
Jun 7, 5:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Sibley	52 min
Jun 7, 7:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Ramsey, Washington	39 min
Jun 7, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Goodhue	66 min
Jun 7, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Faribault	54 min
Jun 7, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Goodhue	61 min
Jun 7, 6:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Blue Earth	31 min
Jun 7, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Rice, Steele	70 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.