Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2005, 12:54 AM CDT for Lac qui Parle County, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. It was in force for 66 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 8, 2005, 12:54 AM CDT (05:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2005, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Lac qui Parle County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:54 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, 9:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 179 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -232 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2572 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 080557 SVRMPX MNC073-173-080700- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0069.050608T0554Z-050608T0700Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1254 AM CDT WED JUN 8 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 200 AM CDT * AT 1254 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF MADISON TO 24 MILES SOUTH OF MADISON...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MADISON... CANBY... BOYD... CLARKFIELD... DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH WERE REPORTED NEAR MARIETTA AROUND 1240 AM WITH THIS STORM. 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 4503 9629 4467 9598 4468 9553 4515 9613 $$ BAP
1 follow-up statement
000 WUUS53 KMPX 080627 RRA SVRMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 119 AM CDT WED JUN 8 2005 MNC073-173-080700- /O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0069.000000T0000Z-050608T0700Z/ LAC QUI PARLE MN-YELLOW MEDICINE MN- 119 AM CDT WED JUN 8 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 200 AM CDT FOR YELLOW MEDICINE AND LAC QUI PARLE COUNTIES... AT 105 AM DAMAGING WINDS UP 60 MPH MPH WERE REPORTED IN CANBY WITH TREES REPORTED DOWN. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...SEEK SAFE SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AT 116 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING SPRING CREEK TO DAWSON....MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE SPRING CREEK...PROVIDENCE... MADISON...HAZEL RUN...HANLEY FALLS...DAWSON AND CLARKFIELD. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM CDT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. LAT...LON 4503 9629 4467 9598 4468 9553 4515 9613 $$ BAP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 7:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 5 hr |
| Jun 7, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth | 56 min |
| Jun 7, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth | 57 min |
| Jun 7, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Rice | 53 min |
| Jun 7, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 60 min |
| Jun 7, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice | 62 min |
| Jun 7, 10:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Rice | 6 hr |
| Jun 7, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Scott | 61 min |
| Jun 8, 12:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine | 57 min |
| Jun 8, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Stevens, Swift | 60 min |
| Jun 8, 12:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Carver, Hennepin, Ramsey, Washington | 67 min |
| Jun 8, 1:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope | 67 min |
| Jun 8, 1:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Stevens, Swift | 51 min |
| Jun 8, 1:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood | 54 min |
| Jun 8, 1:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin, Sherburne, Wright | 61 min |
| Jun 8, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Stearns, Todd | 60 min |
| Jun 8, 2:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Renville, Sibley | 59 min |
| Jun 8, 2:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Meeker | 65 min |
| Jun 8, 2:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Nicollet, Watonwan | 60 min |
| Jun 8, 2:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 65 min |
| Jun 8, 2:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Sherburne, Stearns, Wright | 63 min |
| Jun 8, 2:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Hennepin, Le Sueur, Scott | 66 min |
| Jun 8, 2:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Nicollet, Sibley | 34 min |
| Jun 8, 3:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth | 59 min |
| Jun 8, 3:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Dakota, Ramsey, Washington | 64 min |
| Jun 8, 3:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice, Steele, Waseca | 58 min |
| Jun 8, 4:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 54 min |
| Jun 8, 4:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Washington | 29 min |
| Jun 8, 4:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice, Steele | 39 min |
| Jun 8, 4:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue | 41 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.