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High Wind Warning 3, NWS Twin Cities, MN

July 31, 2008Lac qui Parle County, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this high wind warning at Jul 31, 2008, 7:20 AM CDT for Lac qui Parle County, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. It was in force for 100 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 31, 2008, 7:20 AM CDT (12:20 UTC)
Expired: Jul 31, 2008, 9:00 AM CDT
In force: 100 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN

Counties Lac qui Parle County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 188 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: 41 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -575 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1838 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -419 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -171 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WWUS73 KMPX 311220
NPWMPX

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
720 AM CDT THU JUL 31 2008

...HIGH WINDS TO CONTINUE THROUGH MID MORNING...

.A HIGH WIND WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR LAC QUI PARLE AND YELLOW
MEDICINE COUNTIES UNTIL 9 AM. HIGH WINDS...WITH GUSTS TO 60
MPH...WILL PERSIST OVER THE AREA THROUGH 9 AM. THE WINDS ARE IN
THE WAKE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT MOVED THROUGH EARLIER.

MNZ054-064-311400-
/O.NEW.KMPX.HW.W.0003.080731T1220Z-080731T1400Z/
LAC QUI PARLE-YELLOW MEDICINE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MADISON...GRANITE FALLS
720 AM CDT THU JUL 31 2008

...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED
A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS
MORNING. THE WARNING COVERS LAC QUI PARLE AND YELLOW MEDICINE
COUNTIES.

EXPECT WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH THROUGH 9 AM THIS MORNING. THE STRONG
WINDS ARE IN THE WAKE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT MOVED THROUGH
EARLIER. 

A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED
OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS
OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE.

$$

RAH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 31, 5:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift	48 min
Jul 31, 5:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine	55 min
Jul 31, 5:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Meeker, Renville	43 min
Jul 31, 5:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Renville, Swift, Yellow Medicine	66 min
Jul 31, 6:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine	51 min
Jul 31, 6:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Meeker, Redwood, Renville, Swift	58 min
Jul 31, 6:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	McLeod, Nicollet, Renville, Sibley	60 min
Jul 31, 6:48 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Swift	42 min
Jul 31, 6:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Swift	50 min
Jul 31, 6:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Brown, Le Sueur, Nicollet, Redwood, Renville, Sibley	64 min
Jul 31, 7:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	McLeod, Meeker, Wright	54 min
Jul 31, 7:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi, Redwood, Renville	46 min
Jul 31, 7:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Watonwan	63 min
Jul 31, 7:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver, Le Sueur, McLeod, Nicollet, Renville, Scott and 1 more	58 min
Jul 31, 7:36 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi, McLeod, Meeker	39 min
Jul 31, 7:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Nicollet, Waseca	66 min
Jul 31, 7:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Faribault, Martin	61 min
Jul 31, 8:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota, Hennepin, Le Sueur, Rice, Scott, Steele and 1 more	50 min
Jul 31, 8:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Freeborn	54 min
Jul 31, 8:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota, Goodhue	56 min
Jul 31, 8:47 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Goodhue, Rice, Steele	18 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.