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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2018, 5:06 PM CDT for Renville County, Minnesota. It was in force for 24 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 24, 2018, 5:06 PM CDT (22:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2018, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Renville County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 284 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -141 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1325 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
520
WUUS53 KMPX 242206
SVRMPX
MNC129-242230-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0005.180524T2206Z-180524T2230Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
506 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2018
The National Weather Service in The Twin Cities has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Northeastern Renville County in central Minnesota...
* Until 530 PM CDT
* At 506 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Bird Island,
or 18 miles northeast of Redwood Falls, moving northeast at 15 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter 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,
Hector around 525 PM CDT.
This includes U.S. Highway 212 between mile markers 81 and 93.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 4466 9483 4474 9494 4488 9481 4475 9464
TIME...MOT...LOC 2206Z 227DEG 15KT 4473 9485
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 1:09 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Kanabec | 51 min |
| May 24, 3:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 23 min |
| May 24, 5:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Renville | 27 min |
| May 24, 5:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Renville | 47 min |
| May 24, 6:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Carver | 43 min |
| May 24, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, McLeod, Sibley | 39 min |
| May 24, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Hennepin, Scott | 29 min |
| May 24, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin, Wright | 20 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.