Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 586
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 3, 2005, 4:00 AM CDT for 43 counties in Minnesota; Deuel County, Moody County, South Dakota; Pierce County, Polk County, Saint Croix County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 2005, 4:00 AM CDT (09:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2005, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 48 counties
Anoka County, MN, Big Stone County, MN, Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Carver County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Chisago County, MN, Cottonwood County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Dodge County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Jackson County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Murray County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Nobles County, MN, Olmsted County, MN, Pipestone County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Rice County, MN, Rock County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Steele County, MN, Swift County, MN, Wabasha County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Washington County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Wright County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN, Deuel County, SD, Moody County, SD, Pierce County, WI, Polk County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:01 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
1 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 4:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cottonwood | 45 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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 1958 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1129 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 8:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beltrami, Clearwater, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Pennington and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 2, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Big Stone, Chippewa, Clay, Douglas, Grant and 17 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 2, 11:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beltrami, Clearwater, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Pennington and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 3, 1:12 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beltrami, Clearwater, Itasca, Kittson, Koochiching, Lake of the Woods and 5 more | 33 min |
| Jul 3, 1:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beltrami, Clearwater, Itasca, Koochiching, Marshall, Pennington and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 3, 3:27 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carlton and 56 more | 33 min |
| Jul 3, 5:34 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beltrami, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, Lake of the Woods and 2 more | 26 min |
| Jul 3, 6:39 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 33 more | 66 min |
| Jul 3, 8:09 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston, Mower and 4 more | 66 min |
| Jul 3, 1:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Cottonwood, Faribault, Freeborn and 10 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 3, 6:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dodge, Fillmore, Goodhue, Houston, Mower, Olmsted and 2 more | 118 min |
| Jul 2, 9:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beadle, Bennett, Brookings, Brown, Brule, Buffalo and 40 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Wisconsin, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Dakota, 2005Every severe thunderstorm watch 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.