Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1990, 4:20 AM CDT for Renville County, Minnesota. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 1990, 4:20 AM CDT (09:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1990, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Renville County, MN
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1422 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMSP 050920
SVRMSP
MNC129-051000-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN
420 AM CDT TUE JUN 5 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MINNEAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
...RENVILLE
AT 418 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 TO 20 MILES
NORTHNORTHWEST OF REDWOOD FALLS...NEAR THE TOWN OF RENVILLE.
IT WAS MOVING STRAIGHT EAST AT ABOUT 50 MPH...AND WILL AFFECT
THE CITIES OF OLIVIA...DANUBE...AND BIRD ISLAND BY 5 AM.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
KRAUSEWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 2:56 AM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND PRECIPITATION SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN 2 40 AM CDT TUE JUN 5 1990 ... THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY IN EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA ... AT 2 25 AM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA... ONE OF NOTABLY RAPID DEVELOPMENT WAS 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF WATERTOWN. HERON RADAR HAS IT MOVING EAST 40 TO 50 MILES AN HOUR...THAT PUTS IT ABOUT ABOUT AN HOUR AND 30 MINUTES FROM THE MINNESOTA BORDER...OR AROUND 4 00 AM THIS MORNING. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP FROM EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA...NORTHERN NEBRASKA AND WESTERN IOWA. THESE SHOWERS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPING QUITE RAPIDLY AND WILL BE ENTERING THE SOUTHERN PART OF MINNESOTA BETWEEN 3 00 AND 4 00 AM. DME
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 3:48 AM CDT, 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND PRECIPITATION SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN 3 40 AM CDT TUE JUN 5 1990 ... THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY IN EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA ... AT 3 28 AM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE DEVELOPING IN EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA... AND ARE MOVING INTO WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. THE THUNDER STORMS ARE EXPECTED INTO LAC QUI PARLE AND YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTIES BY 4 00 AM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO STRONG GUSTY WINDS... FREQUENT LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAINS AND HAIL. PERSONS IN THESE COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THREATINING WEATHER. SHOWERS WERE AS FAR EAST AS WILLMAR AND ALEXANDRIA AND MOVING INTO CENTRAL MINNESOTA. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP FROM EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA...NORTHERN NEBRASKA AND WESTERN IOWA. THESE SHOWERS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP QUITE RAPIDLY AND ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE EAST AT 45 TO 55 MILES AN HOUR INTO MINNESOTA. DME
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 4:16 AM CDT, 4 minutes before
MNZ013-014-015-017-050945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN 415 AM CDT TUE JUN 5 1990 ...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA... A LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED RAPIDLY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF STRONG WIND AND HAIL. THE STORMS ARE MOVING RAPIDLY EAST...AND SHOULD PRODUCE WIND GUSTS AROUND 55 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN A 25 MILE WIDE BAND FROM THE WILLMAR VICINITY...TO 25 MILES SOUTHEASTOF REDWOOD FALLS. IF YOU ARE IN THIS AREA...YOU SHOULD BE READY TO MOVE QUICKLY TO SHELTER. LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. TDK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 4:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Sibley | 27 min |
| Jun 5, 4:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Nicollet | 36 min |
| Jun 5, 5:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dodge, Freeborn, Mower, Steele | 37 min |
| Jun 5, 5:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue, Rice | 37 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.