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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Twin Cities, MN

May 5, 2005Renville County, Minnesota

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.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2005-05-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2005-05-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 103 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 5, 4:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRenville43 min
May 5, 5:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBrown, Nicollet, Renville, Sibley43 min
May 5, 6:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBrown57 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.