Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2005, 3:32 PM CDT for Renville County, Minnesota. It was in force for 33 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, 2005, 3:32 PM CDT (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2005, 4:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 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), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 1732 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 052033 SVRMPX MNC129-052115- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0018.050505T2032Z-050505T2115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 332 PM CDT THU MAY 5 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RENVILLE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 415 PM CDT * AT 330 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES WEST OF OLIVIA...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... OLIVIA... BIRD ISLAND... HECTOR... STAY INSIDE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4476 9542 4458 9500 4487 9454 4489 9527 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KMPX 052052 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 348 PM CDT THU MAY 5 2005 MNC129-052115- /O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0018.000000T0000Z-050505T2115Z/ RENVILLE MN- 348 PM CDT THU MAY 5 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 415 PM CDT FOR RENVILLE COUNTY... AT 333 PM CDT...HAIL UP TO DIME SIZE WAS REPORTED IN DANUBE OR JUST 6 MILES WEST OF OLIVIA. AT 348 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR OLIVIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. LAT...LON 4476 9542 4458 9500 4487 9454 4489 9527 $$
000 WWUS53 KMPX 052105 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 405 PM CDT THU MAY 5 2005 MNC129-052115- /O.CAN.KMPX.SV.W.0018.000000T0000Z-050505T2115Z/ RENVILLE MN- 405 PM CDT THU MAY 5 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR RENVILLE COUNTY IS CANCELLED... RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM HAD WEAKENED TO BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. LAT...LON 4476 9542 4458 9500 4487 9454 4489 9527 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Renville | 43 min |
| May 5, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Nicollet, Renville, Sibley | 43 min |
| May 5, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown | 57 min |
Nearby
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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.