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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Jun 19, 2009, 4:07 PM CDT for Pope County, Minnesota. It was in force for 38 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
- Jun 19, 2009, 4:07 PM CDT (21:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2009, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
County Pope County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 1082 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1044 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Twin Cities, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jun 19, 3:07 PM CDT, 1 hour earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 3:07 PM CDT, 1 hour before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 353 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 2009 MNZ041>045-047>070-073>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ014>016-023>028- 202100- DOUGLAS-TODD-MORRISON-MILLE LACS-KANABEC-STEVENS-POPE-STEARNS- BENTON-SHERBURNE-ISANTI-CHISAGO-LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA- KANDIYOHI-MEEKER-WRIGHT-HENNEPIN-ANOKA-RAMSEY-WASHINGTON- YELLOW MEDICINE-RENVILLE-MCLEOD-SIBLEY-CARVER-SCOTT-DAKOTA- REDWOOD-BROWN-NICOLLET-LE SUEUR-RICE-GOODHUE-WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH- WASECA-STEELE-MARTIN-FARIBAULT-FREEBORN-POLK-BARRON-RUSK- ST. CROIX-PIERCE-DUNN-PEPIN-EAU CLAIRE- 353 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MINNESOTA...AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS EVENING AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE CROSSES THE OUTLOOK AREA. STORMS WILL BE MOST WIDESPREAD IN THE EVENING ACROSS WESTERN MINNESOTA...WHERE PEAK DAYTIME HEATING HAS RESULTED IN ENOUGH INSTABILITY TO GENERATE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS NEAR THE UPPER LEVEL FEATURE. THIS ACTIVITY WILL SHIFT EAST DURING THE NIGHT...DIMINISHING AFTER SUNSET. MOST OF THESE STORMS WILL REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LEVELS...BUT ISOLATED PENNY TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL WITH THE STRONGEST OF STORMS CAN NOT BE RULED OUT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN ON SUNDAY AND MONDAY THROUGHOUT THE OUTLOOK AREA. MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRESENTLY EXPECTED DURING THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 19, 11:37 AM CDT, 4 hours 30 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 57 min |
| Jun 18, 7:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Morrison | 43 min |
| Jun 18, 7:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Todd | 42 min |
| Jun 18, 8:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Todd | 51 min |
| Jun 18, 8:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Lac qui Parle | 47 min |
| Jun 18, 8:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Stearns | 38 min |
| Jun 18, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 54 min |
| Jun 18, 8:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Morrison | 48 min |
| Jun 18, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sherburne, Stearns, Wright | 47 min |
| Jun 18, 11:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Pope | 62 min |
| Jun 19, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 45 min |
| Jun 19, 1:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Benton | 30 min |
| Jun 19, 2:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Pope | 66 min |
| Jun 19, 4:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Pope | 61 min |
| Jun 19, 4:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Stearns | 55 min |
| Jun 19, 5:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Meeker, Wright | 54 min |
| Jun 19, 6:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Hennepin, Wright | 38 min |
| Jun 19, 6:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Hennepin, Wright | 21 min |
| Jun 19, 4:57 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Rusk | 63 min |
| Jun 19, 6:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Rusk | 40 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.