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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 2, 2007Renville County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2007, 4:13 PM CDT for Renville County, Minnesota. It was in force for 32 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: Jun 2, 2007, 4:13 PM CDT (21:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2007, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 32 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 21:13 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, 9.2 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: 774 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 022113
SVRMPX
MNC129-022145-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0053.070602T2113Z-070602T2145Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
413 PM CDT SAT JUN 2 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 445 PM CDT

* AT 409 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...   
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE  HAIL.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED    
  OVER EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL RENVILLE COUNTY...OR ABOUT 7 MILES      
  NORTH OF OLIVIA. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE IMPACT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
  THE INDICATED COUNTY

STAY INDOORS...AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 4480 9508 4480 9485 4489 9486 4489 9509

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KMPX 022124
SVSMPX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
424 PM CDT SAT JUN 2 2007

MNC129-022145-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0053.000000T0000Z-070602T2145Z/
RENVILLE MN-
424 PM CDT SAT JUN 2 2007

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 445 PM CDT
FOR RENVILLE COUNTY...

AT 421 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE 
THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.  THIS STORM 
WAS LOCATED 4 MILES EAST OF BECHYN...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF 
BIRD ISLAND...AND MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5 MPH.

ANOTHER POSSIBLE SEVERE STORM WAS LOCATED JUST NORTH OF OLIVIA AND 
ALSO MOVING SOUTHWEST AT ABOUT 5 MPH.  

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BECHYN...OLIVIA...DANUBE AND
BIRD ISLAND.

LAT...LON 4463 9515 4459 9476 4488 9475 4488 9519

$$

000 
WWUS53 KMPX 022145
SVSMPX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
443 PM CDT SAT JUN 2 2007

MNC129-022153-
/O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0053.000000T0000Z-070602T2145Z/
RENVILLE MN-
443 PM CDT SAT JUN 2 2007

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR RENVILLE COUNTY EXPIRED AT 445
PM CDT...

SEVERE STORMS HAVE DECREASED IN INTENSITY AND NO LONGER LOOK SEVERE. 
HOWEVER...THUNDERSTORMS WERE STILL IN THE AREA AND WERE MOVING VERY 
SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHWEST THROUGH THE CENTRAL PARTS OF THE COUNTY. 
THERE WERE INDICATIONS OF WEAK ROTATION AT 430 PM. REMAIN ALERT FOR 
POSSIBLE ADDITIONAL WARNINGS.

LAT...LON 4463 9515 4459 9476 4488 9475 4488 9519

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 1:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	McLeod, Sibley	43 min
Jun 2, 2:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota, Ramsey, Washington	44 min
Jun 2, 2:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Sibley	47 min
Jun 2, 2:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Anoka	41 min
Jun 2, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Meeker	47 min
Jun 2, 3:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Sibley	94 min
Jun 2, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Stearns, Wright	30 min
Jun 2, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota	26 min
Jun 2, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota, Ramsey	45 min
Jun 2, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Sherburne, Wright	54 min
Jun 2, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Hennepin	39 min
Jun 2, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Morrison	23 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.