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Tornado Watch 293

May 30, 202257 counties in Minnesota; 5 counties in South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 30, 2022, 2:37 PM CDT for 57 counties in Minnesota; 5 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 30, 2022, 2:37 PM CDT (19:37 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2022, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Particularly dangerous situation: Yes
Largest hail expected: 2.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 70 kt

All 62 counties

Aitkin County, MN, Anoka County, MN, Becker County, MN, Benton County, MN, Big Stone County, MN, Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Carlton County, MN, Carver County, MN, Cass County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Chisago County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Grant County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Itasca County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Koochiching County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Martin County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pine County, MN, Pope County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Rice County, MN, Saint Louis County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Steele County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Todd County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Washington County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Wright County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN, Codington County, SD, Deuel County, SD, Grant County, SD, Hamlin County, SD, Roberts County, SD

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:40 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.

What SPC expected

The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.

Two or more tornadoes: 90%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 80%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 90%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 80%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 80%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 80%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

64 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 2:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Big Stone, Traverse	34 min
May 30, 2:42 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABR	Codington, Hamlin	4 hr
May 30, 2:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Deuel, Grant	35 min
May 30, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine	35 min
May 30, 3:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Big Stone, Traverse	26 min
May 30, 3:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Grant, Roberts	23 min
May 30, 3:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Big Stone	31 min
May 30, 3:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Traverse	28 min
May 30, 3:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Lac qui Parle, Stevens, Swift	31 min
May 30, 3:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Big Stone	19 min
May 30, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Traverse	32 min
May 30, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABR	Big Stone, Traverse	30 min
May 30, 3:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Stevens, Swift	28 min
May 30, 3:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FGF	Grant, Otter Tail, Wilkin	55 min
May 30, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Douglas	37 min
May 30, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MPX	Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine	30 min
May 30, 4:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Douglas, Pope	40 min
May 30, 4:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Grant	24 min
May 30, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MPX	Redwood, Renville, Yellow Medicine	42 min
May 30, 4:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Douglas	26 min
May 30, 4:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Douglas, Pope	38 min
May 30, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FGF	Becker, Clay, Grant, Otter Tail, Wadena, Wilkin	49 min
May 30, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MPX	Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Renville, Swift, Yellow Medicine	47 min
May 30, 4:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Otter Tail	42 min
May 30, 4:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Pope, Stearns, Swift	46 min
May 30, 4:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	MPX	Douglas, Todd	45 min
May 30, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Redwood, Renville, Yellow Medicine	47 min
May 30, 5:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Becker, Otter Tail	26 min
May 30, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MPX	Brown, Martin, Nicollet, Redwood, Renville, Sibley and 1 more	39 min
May 30, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Becker, Hubbard, Otter Tail, Wadena	53 min
May 30, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi, Renville, Swift	33 min
May 30, 5:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Morrison, Todd	43 min
May 30, 5:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Wadena	25 min
May 30, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Cass	12 min
May 30, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Cass, Crow Wing	34 min
May 30, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FGF	Becker, Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, Mahnomen	57 min
May 30, 5:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Cass	37 min
May 30, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Brown, McLeod, Nicollet, Sibley, Watonwan	47 min
May 30, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DLH	Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing	35 min
May 30, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, Lake of the Woods	59 min
May 30, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DLH	Cass, Itasca, Koochiching	43 min
May 30, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MPX	Carver, Hennepin, McLeod, Nicollet, Sibley, Wright	37 min
May 30, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	McLeod, Meeker, Wright	43 min
May 30, 6:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Carver, McLeod, Wright	28 min
May 30, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DLH	Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing, Itasca	48 min
May 30, 6:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Wright	16 min
May 30, 6:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Aitkin, Itasca, Saint Louis	24 min
May 30, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DLH	Aitkin, Crow Wing	34 min
May 30, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MPX	Anoka, Benton, Hennepin, Isanti, Mille Lacs, Sherburne and 2 more	34 min
May 30, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DLH	Itasca, Koochiching	30 min
May 30, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine	30 min
May 30, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DLH	Itasca, Saint Louis	36 min
May 30, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs	33 min
May 30, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Aitkin, Pine	26 min
May 30, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Big Stone, Traverse	40 min
May 30, 7:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Itasca, Saint Louis	28 min
May 30, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Itasca, Koochiching, Saint Louis	31 min
May 30, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Aitkin, Pine	45 min
May 30, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Anoka, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott	32 min
May 30, 7:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Saint Louis	32 min
May 30, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Saint Louis	30 min
May 30, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DLH	Carlton, Pine, Saint Louis	28 min
May 30, 8:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Becker, Clay, Otter Tail, Wilkin	47 min
May 30, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Lake, Saint Louis	33 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 143 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: 1332 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 8:31 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beltrami, Kittson, Koochiching, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Pennington and 2 more	89 min
May 29, 11:25 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray and 5 more	95 min
May 30, 12:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Benton, Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 35 more	8 hr
May 30, 2:03 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aitkin, Becker, Cass, Clay, Clearwater, Crow Wing and 7 more	117 min
May 30, 2:21 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Martin and 6 more	84 min
May 30, 2:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Carlton, Cass, Clay and 14 more	5 hr
May 30, 4:58 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Carlton, Cass and 20 more	92 min
May 30, 9:27 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock	93 min
May 30, 11:28 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock	92 min
May 30, 11:49 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more	6 hr
May 30, 12:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Chippewa, Isanti, Kanabec, Kandiyohi, McLeod and 9 more	65 min
May 30, 1:34 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more	86 min
May 30, 2:06 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown and 40 more	84 min
May 30, 4:54 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Brown, Cottonwood, Crow Wing, Douglas, Jackson and 13 more	96 min
May 30, 6:51 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon and 7 more	54 min
May 29, 7:16 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Aurora, Bon Homme, Charles Mix, Clay, Davison, Douglas and 13 more	8 hr
May 29, 9:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aurora, Bon Homme, Charles Mix, Clay, Davison, Douglas and 12 more	89 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.