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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN

May 16, 2015Renville County, Minnesota

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2015-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2015-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 128 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 12:07 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXKandiyohi38 min
May 16, 3:58 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXYellow Medicine32 min
May 16, 4:01 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXChippewa29 min
May 16, 4:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXChippewa, Yellow Medicine44 min
May 16, 4:29 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXLac qui Parle16 min
May 16, 4:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXLac qui Parle31 min
May 16, 5:05 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXChippewa, Swift25 min
May 16, 5:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXStevens33 min
May 16, 5:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXChippewa25 min
May 16, 5:39 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMPXSwift36 min
May 16, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXChippewa, Swift17 min
May 16, 5:52 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMPXChippewa, Swift23 min
May 16, 6:11 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXSwift34 min
May 16, 6:41 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXPope, Swift34 min
May 16, 6:54 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXMeeker36 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.