Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 704
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 9, 2005, 12:50 AM CDT for 17 counties in Minnesota; 8 counties in North Dakota; 7 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 2005, 12:50 AM CDT (05:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2005, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 32 counties
Aitkin County, MN, Benton County, MN, Carlton County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Grant County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pine County, MN, Pope County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Todd County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Dickey County, ND, Emmons County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Brown County, SD, Campbell County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Marshall County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Roberts County, SD, Walworth County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:51 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
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 12:51 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Emmons | 39 min |
| Aug 9, 12:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 62 min |
| Aug 9, 1:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom | 32 min |
| Aug 9, 1:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Wilkin | 40 min |
| Aug 9, 1:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 39 min |
| Aug 9, 3:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 41 min |
| Aug 9, 3:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Todd | 57 min |
| Aug 9, 4:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 60 min |
| Aug 9, 4:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Crow Wing | 59 min |
| Aug 9, 5:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kanabec, Mille Lacs | 44 min |
| Aug 9, 5:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin | 57 min |
| Aug 9, 5:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Carlton, Pine | 66 min |
| Aug 9, 6:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Carlton | 30 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 1034 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -292 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2393 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 11:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Clay, Wilkin | 97 min |
| Aug 9, 2:36 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Benton, Carlton, Crow Wing, Douglas, Grant and 10 more | 114 min |
| Aug 9, 5:05 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carlton, Pine | 115 min |
| Aug 9, 11:25 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Faribault, Jackson, Le Sueur and 11 more | 95 min |
| Aug 9, 11:51 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Carver, Chisago, Hennepin, Isanti and 11 more | 84 min |
| Aug 9, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dodge, Fillmore, Goodhue, Houston, Mower, Olmsted and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 9, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Cottonwood, Dakota, Dodge and 16 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 9, 5:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Winona | 94 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Dakota, 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.