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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Twin Cities, MN

May 5, 2002Renville County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2002, 6:26 PM CDT for Renville County, Minnesota. It was in force for 64 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, 6:26 PM CDT (23:26 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 2002, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 64 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), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 5, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 110 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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 052326
SVRMSP
MNC129-060030-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 625 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING
  WINDS 15 MILES WEST OF FRANKLIN...OR ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF REDWOOD
  FALLS...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  FRANKLIN.
  HECTOR.
  BIRD ISLAND
  OLIVIA
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING.

LAT...LON 4469 9527 4451 9488 4457 9467 4478 9471

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi, Meeker, Stearns	45 min
May 5, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Renville	31 min
May 5, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Wright	33 min
May 5, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver, Hennepin, McLeod	42 min
May 5, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Wright	60 min
May 5, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi, Meeker	48 min
May 5, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Anoka, Redwood, Sherburne, Yellow Medicine	43 min
May 5, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Hennepin, Ramsey, Washington	56 min
May 5, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Redwood	53 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2002 Every 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.