Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2015
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2015, 5:20 PM CDT for Chippewa County, Minnesota. It was in force for 25 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 16, 2015, 5:20 PM CDT (22:20 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2015, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Chippewa County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 853 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
932
WUUS53 KMPX 162220
SVRMPX
MNC023-162245-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0013.150516T2220Z-150516T2245Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
520 PM CDT SAT MAY 16 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTH CENTRAL CHIPPEWA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 545 PM CDT
* AT 520 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER
MONTEVIDEO...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES.
* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
WATSON AROUND 530 PM CDT.
OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE BIG BEND
CITY...MONTEVIDEO AIRPORT AND ASBURY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 4515 9546 4488 9556 4491 9568 4490 9569
4491 9572 4493 9573 4496 9581 4515 9582
TIME...MOT...LOC 2220Z 185DEG 26KT 4492 9568
TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...60MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 12:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Kandiyohi | 38 min |
| May 16, 3:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 32 min |
| May 16, 4:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chippewa | 29 min |
| May 16, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Yellow Medicine | 44 min |
| May 16, 4:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle | 16 min |
| May 16, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle | 31 min |
| May 16, 5:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Swift | 25 min |
| May 16, 5:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Stevens | 33 min |
| May 16, 5:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Swift | 36 min |
| May 16, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Swift | 17 min |
| May 16, 5:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Swift | 23 min |
| May 16, 6:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Swift | 34 min |
| May 16, 6:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Renville | 39 min |
| May 16, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Pope, Swift | 34 min |
| May 16, 6:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Meeker | 36 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.