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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 13, 2005Redwood County, Renville County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2005, 5:38 PM CDT for Redwood County, Renville County, Minnesota. It was in force for 67 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 13, 2005, 5:38 PM CDT (22:38 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2005, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Jun 13, 6:00 PM CDT	HAIL 0.75	3 Nw Morton, MN
Jun 13, 6:01 PM CDT	HAIL 0.75	Redwood Falls, MN
Jun 13, 6:44 PM CDT	FUNNEL CLOUD	2 Se Wabasso, MN

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 13, 12:20 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 955 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 231 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 286 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 132237
SVRMPX
MNC127-129-132345-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0097.050613T2238Z-050613T2345Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
538 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 536 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES
  SOUTH OF REDWOOD FALLS...AND MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  REDWOOD FALLS...
  OLIVIA...

LAT...LON 4436 9524 4435 9499 4485 9476 4489 9532

$$

RJN

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KMPX 132318
SVSMPX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
617 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005

MNC127-129-132345-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0097.000000T0000Z-050613T2345Z/
RENVILLE MN-REDWOOD MN-
617 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR
REDWOOD AND RENVILLE COUNTIES...

AT 612 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
TO THE SOUTH OF REDWOOD COUNTY. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING 
NORTH...AND WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL IN LAMBERTON BY 645 PM.

WANDA IS ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING FOR
SOUTHWESTERN MINNESOTA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL
MIDNIGHT CDT TUESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHERN MINNESOTA.

LAT...LON 4425 9557 4421 9526 4435 9499 4485 9476
      4489 9532 4453 9534

$$
RJN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Stevens	51 min
Jun 13, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Scott	63 min
Jun 13, 6:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Douglas	23 min
Jun 13, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver, Hennepin	63 min
Jun 13, 6:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Douglas	60 min
Jun 13, 6:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Redwood	63 min
Jun 13, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Swift	59 min
Jun 13, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Rice	42 min
Jun 13, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Nicollet, Sibley	66 min

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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.