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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS Twin Cities, MN

May 5, 2002Renville County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2002, 4:44 PM CDT for Renville County, Minnesota. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 5, 2002, 4:44 PM CDT (21:44 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 2002, 5:15 PM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Renville County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 96 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2002-05-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2002-05-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 58 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1967 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 052144
SVRMSP
MNC129-052215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
444 PM CDT SUN MAY 5 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN RENVILLE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 444 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE
  HAIL 3 MILES NORTH OF BIRD ISLAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  BIRD ISLAND.
  HECTOR.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH LARGE HAIL...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 4485 9504 4470 9490 4476 9455 4487 9455

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 5, 4:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXKandiyohi, Meeker, Stearns45 min
May 5, 4:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXWright33 min
May 5, 5:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXCarver, Hennepin, McLeod42 min
May 5, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXWright60 min
May 5, 5:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXKandiyohi, Meeker48 min
May 5, 5:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXAnoka, Redwood, Sherburne, Yellow Medicine43 min
May 5, 6:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXHennepin, Ramsey, Washington56 min
May 5, 6:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRenville64 min
May 5, 6:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRedwood53 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.