Winter Weather in Minnesota, November 30, 2005

Name: Winter Weather in Minnesota, November 30, 2005
Start: 2005-11-30T14:00
End: 2005-11-30T23:59
Location: Minnesota

November 30, 2005 · NWS FSD · 8 events in 8 counties and zones

Snowfall of 3 to 6 inches was accompanied by some minor drifting, slowing travel in places.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it; 8 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.

Tornadoes
Tropical storms and surge
Floods
Wind
Hail
Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
Other

Open the live radar over this ground

The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 8

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What happened

The episode as NWS FSD wrote it up.

Snowfall of 3 to 6 inches was accompanied by some minor drifting, slowing travel in places.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 30, 1:40 PM CST, 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 30, 1:40 PM CST, 20 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
140 PM CST WED NOV 30 2005

.DISCUSSION...
JUST A QUICK UPDATE TO ADD LINCOLN AND LYON COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST
MINNESOTA TO SNOW ADVISORY WITH A QUICK TO 2 4 INCHES OF SNOW
ACCUMULATING IN LOCATIONS FURTHER WEST.

&&
.PREV. DISCUSSION...
VIGOROUS SHORTWAVE MOVING ALONG THE SOUTHERN EDGE OF THE FORECAST
AREA TODAY. HAVE SIDED WITH THE GFS THIS MORNING...WHICH DEPICTS
SLOWER MOVING SYSTEM THAN THE NAM BY ABOUT 6 HOURS OR SO. SURFACE
REFLECTION DEPICTS INVERTED TROUGH EXTENDING FROM JUST WEST OF KMBG
TO JUST E OF KPHP. GFS MODEL DEPICTING FRONTOGENETIC FORCING MAINLY
AHEAD OF THE INVERTED TROUGH...TRANSITIONING TO A BEHIND CASE AS THE
DAY PROGRESSES. THEREFORE...EXPECT SNOW TO REACH THE I-29 CORRIDOR
AROUND 17Z...MOVING EAST INTO SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST IOWA
IN THE EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS. AS MENTIONED BY PREVIOUS
FORECASTER...SNOW RATIOS WILL INITIALLY START AROUND 15:1....BUT
WILL INCREASE TO AROUND 20 TO 30:1 AS TEMPERATURES FALL INTO THE
LOWER TEENS THIS EVENING. WITH UPPER LEVEL FORCING HANGING AROUND A
LITTLE LONGER THAN ANTICIPATED...HAVE INCREASED POPS FOR THIS
EVENING...BUT WILL NOT AMEND HEADLINE TIMES FOR NOW AS SNOW IS
EXPECTED TO TAPER OFF RIGHT AROUND THE EXPIRATION TIME.

&&

.AVIATION...
MIFR CONDITIONS WILL GIVEWAY TO IFR CONDITIONS AS SNOW SPREADS FROM
WEST TO EAST. SNOW WILL START AS MVFR VSBYS AND CIGS...THE BCM IFR
WITHIN TWO HRS OF ONSET. SNOW SHOULD TAPER OFF AFTER 00Z IN
KHON...WILE SNOW WILL LINGER IN KFSD AND KSUX THROUGH 03Z.
&&

.FSD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...

SD...SNOW ADVISORY UNTIL 9 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR SDZ054-SDZ055-
SDZ056-SDZ060-SDZ061-SDZ062-SDZ065-SDZ066-SDZ067-SDZ068-
SDZ069-SDZ070-SDZ071.

     SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW ADVISORY UNTIL 8 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR
     SDZ050-SDZ057-SDZ058-SDZ059-SDZ063-SDZ064.

MN....SNOW ADVISORY UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT FOR MNZ071-MNZ072
MNZ080-MNZ081- MNZ089-MNZ090-MNZ097-MNZ098.

IA....SNOW ADVISORY UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT FOR IAZ001-IAZ002-
IAZ003-IAZ012-IAZ013-IAZ014-IAZ020-IAZ021-IAZ022-IAZ031-IAZ032

NE...SNOW ADVISORY UNTIL 9 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR NEZ013.

     SNOW ADVISORY UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT FOR NEZ014.
&&

BT/LIEBL

The radar

The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.

Open the radar archive at this moment

Event by event

8 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.

Winter Weather, Lincoln

When: November 30, 2:00 PM CST to 11:00 PM CST
Where: Lincoln forecast zone
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates: 44.413, -96.267 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Winter Weather, Lyon

When: November 30, 2:00 PM CST to 11:00 PM CST
Where: Lyon forecast zone
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates: 44.414, -95.839 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Winter Weather, Murray

When: November 30, 2:00 PM CST to 11:00 PM CST
Where: Murray forecast zone
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates: 44.022, -95.763 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Winter Weather, Pipestone

When: November 30, 2:00 PM CST to 11:00 PM CST
Where: Pipestone forecast zone
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates: 44.023, -96.259 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Winter Weather, Rock

When: November 30, 2:00 PM CST to 11:00 PM CST
Where: Rock forecast zone
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates: 43.675, -96.253 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Winter Weather, Cottonwood

When: November 30, 3:00 PM CST to 11:59 PM CST
Where: Cottonwood forecast zone
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates: 44.007, -95.181 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Winter Weather, Jackson

When: November 30, 3:00 PM CST to 11:59 PM CST
Where: Jackson forecast zone
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates: 43.674, -95.154 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Winter Weather, Nobles

When: November 30, 3:00 PM CST to 11:59 PM CST
Where: Nobles forecast zone
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates: 43.674, -95.753 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

What these are

Winter Weather: Snow, sleet or freezing rain below warning levels that still caused disruption, damage or casualties.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Minnesota in 2005 Every state in 2005 This day in weather history Warnings in Minnesota, November 2005

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5485310, 5485311, 5485312, 5485314, 5485315, 5485230, 5485309, 5485313.