Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2005, 4:32 PM CDT for Renville County, Minnesota. It was in force for 43 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, 4:32 PM CDT (21:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2005, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 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), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 104 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 052132 SVRMPX MNC129-052215- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0019.050505T2132Z-050505T2215Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 432 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 515 PM CDT * AT 426 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTH OF OLIVIA...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BIRD ISLAND... HECTOR... BUFFALO LAKE... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4479 9513 4457 9511 4468 9462 4487 9456 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 052203 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 503 PM CDT THU MAY 5 2005 MNC129-052215- /O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0019.000000T0000Z-050505T2215Z/ RENVILLE MN- 503 PM CDT THU MAY 5 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR RENVILLE COUNTY... AT 500 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...AND THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HECTOR...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OLIVIA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BECHYN...DANUBE...BUFFALO LAKE AND BIRD ISLAND. LAT...LON 4479 9513 4457 9511 4468 9462 4487 9456 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Renville | 33 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.