Alert archive / Minnesota / Mesoscale Discussions in 2005
Mesoscale Discussion 2135
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 3, 2005, 5:11 PM CDT for 31 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 3, 2005, 5:11 PM CDT (22:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2005, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 31 counties
Anoka County, MN, Benton County, MN, Carver County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Chisago County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Grant County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Pope County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Renville County, MN, Rice County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Steele County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Todd County, MN, Washington County, MN, Wright County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:11 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 watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 344 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
- 713 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -297 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1214 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 4:00 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Grant, Norman, Traverse, Wilkin | 3 hr |
| Sep 3, 1:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Douglas and 22 more | 95 min |
| Sep 3, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Carver, Chippewa, Dakota, Douglas and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 3, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dodge, Fillmore, Goodhue, Houston, Mower, Olmsted and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Sep 3, 6:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Carver, Chippewa, Dakota, Douglas and 24 more | 89 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.