Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2005, 6:21 PM CDT for Blue Earth County, Faribault County, Minnesota. It was in force for 54 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, 6:21 PM CDT (23:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2005, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Blue Earth County, MN, Faribault County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 072322 SVRMPX MNC013-043-080015- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0053.050607T2321Z-050608T0015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 621 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BLUE EARTH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA FARIBAULT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 619 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BLUE EARTH MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. ANOTHER SEVERE STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MINNESOTA LAKE...THIS STORM WAS ALSO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... DELAVAN... BRUSH CREEK... EASTON... WALTERS... WELLS... MAPLETON... 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 4382 9422 4355 9422 4356 9366 4404 9385 $$ RJN/DWE
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 080013 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 711 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005 MNC013-043-080025- /O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0053.000000T0000Z-050608T0015Z/ BLUE EARTH MN-FARIBAULT MN- 711 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR FARIBAULT AND BLUE EARTH COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 715 PM CDT... HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS WAS REPORTED NEAR WINNEBAGO AT 623 PM. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM TUESDAY EVENING FOR PARTS OF SOUTHERN MINNESOTA AND NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN. LAT...LON 4382 9422 4355 9422 4356 9366 4404 9385 $$
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, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 55 min |
| Jun 7, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 66 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
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.