Alert archive / Minnesota / Special Weather Statements in 2009
Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at May 15, 2009, 2:08 PM CDT for 4 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 67 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 15, 2009, 2:08 PM CDT (19:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2009, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Kandiyohi County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Stearns County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:08 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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 1057 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WWUS83 KMPX 151908
SPSMPX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
208 PM CDT FRI MAY 15 2009
MNZ042>044-049>051-056>059-152015-
BENTON-CHIPPEWA-KANDIYOHI-MEEKER-MILLE
LACS-MORRISON-SHERBURNE-STEARNS-TODD-WRIGHT-
208 PM CDT FRI MAY 15 2009
...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO/DEVELOPING OVER BENTON...CHIPPEWA...
KANDIYOHI...MEEKER...MILLE LACS...MORRISON...SHERBURNE...STEARNS...
TODD AND WRIGHT COUNTIES THROUGH 315 PM CDT...
AT 204 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM LITTLE FALLS TO 3 MILES
NORTH OF GEORGEVILLE TO 3 MILES WEST OF KANDIYOHI. THESE STORMS WERE
MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
HAIL UP TO DIME SIZE AND WINDS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE
STORMS.
* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...
ST CLOUD.
ROYALTON.
LITCHFIELD.
ELMDALE.
SPRING HILL.
HAWICK.
BOWLUS.
STROUT.
LASTRUP.
LAT...LON 4622 9347 4570 9403 4500 9418 4493 9525
4544 9511 4606 9443
TIME...MOT...LOC 1907Z 249DEG 32KT 4597 9433 4549 9490
4516 9495
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 3:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Kandiyohi | 42 min |
| May 15, 3:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Benton | 66 min |
| May 15, 4:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Sherburne | 49 min |
| May 15, 5:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Carver, Le Sueur, Scott | 43 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Minnesota, 2009Every special weather statement in 2009
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.