Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 534
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 26, 2005, 11:45 PM CDT for 17 counties in Minnesota; Richland County, North Dakota. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 2005, 11:45 PM CDT (04:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2005, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Becker County, MN, Beltrami County, MN, Cass County, MN, Clay County, MN, Clearwater County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Lake of the Woods County, MN, Mahnomen County, MN, Marshall County, MN, Norman County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Roseau County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Richland County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:45 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.
Warnings issued inside it
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 12:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Roseau | 61 min |
| Jun 27, 12:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Kittson, Marshall, Polk | 57 min |
| Jun 27, 1:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Norman | 58 min |
| Jun 27, 1:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clay | 53 min |
| Jun 27, 1:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Kittson, Roseau | 12 hr |
| Jun 27, 1:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Mahnomen, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake | 62 min |
| Jun 27, 1:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Kittson, Marshall, Roseau | 65 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 870 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 771 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 7:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard, Lake of the Woods and 9 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 26, 7:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Itasca | 2 hr |
| Jun 26, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Kittson, Norman, Traverse, Wilkin | 8 hr |
| Jun 26, 9:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Kittson, Norman, Traverse, Wilkin | 92 min |
| Jun 26, 10:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clearwater, Hubbard, Itasca and 8 more | 115 min |
| Jun 27, 1:51 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Polk, Wilkin | 54 min |
| Jun 27, 2:59 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hubbard, Koochiching | 61 min |
| Jun 27, 12:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Benton, Brown, Carlton, Cass, Chippewa and 22 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 27, 1:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Benton, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing and 8 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 27, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood and 31 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 27, 3:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carlton and 53 more | 83 min |
| Jun 27, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Pine, Ramsey and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 6:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Dakota, Dodge and 25 more | 118 min |
| Jun 26, 7:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Benson, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke and 21 more | 2 hr |
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.