Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 772
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Sep 5, 2005, 10:20 PM CDT for 39 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 5, 2005, 10:20 PM CDT (03:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 2005, 3:20 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 39 counties
Anoka County, MN, Benton County, MN, Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Carver County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Chisago County, MN, Cottonwood County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Jackson County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Lyon County, MN, Martin County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Murray County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Nobles County, MN, Pope County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Rice County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Steele County, MN, Swift County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Washington County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Wright County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:20 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
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 62 min |
| Sep 5, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Renville | 62 min |
| Sep 5, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker | 63 min |
| Sep 5, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Murray, Pipestone, Rock | 41 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, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 294 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
- 239 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1970 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 7:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Big Stone, Clay, Clearwater, Grant and 16 more | 2 hr |
| Sep 5, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Douglas, Hubbard and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 5, 10:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Hennepin and 13 more | 65 min |
| Sep 5, 11:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carlton and 44 more | 87 min |
| Sep 5, 11:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Jackson, Nobles, Rock | 4 hr |
| Sep 6, 2:52 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fillmore, Freeborn, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha | 83 min |
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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.