Alert archive / Minnesota / Special Weather Statements in 2015
Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at May 16, 2015, 6:21 PM CDT for Renville County, Minnesota. It was in force for 39 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, 6:21 PM CDT (23:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2015, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
County Renville County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 114 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.
567 WWUS83 KMPX 162321 SPSMPX SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 621 PM CDT SAT MAY 16 2015 MNZ065-073-170000- REDWOOD-RENVILLE- 621 PM CDT SAT MAY 16 2015 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT CENTRAL RENVILLE AND NORTHEASTERN REDWOOD COUNTIES THROUGH 7 PM... AT 619 PM CDT...NUMBEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH ACROSS RENVILLE AND REDWOOD. THESE STORMS HAVE BEEN AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN MINNESOTA. LAT...LON 4440 9487 4440 9520 4489 9524 4489 9484 TIME...MOT...LOC 2319Z 183DEG 40KT 4468 9502 $$
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, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 25 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, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Pope, Swift | 34 min |
| May 16, 6:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Meeker | 36 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.