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 Jun 27, 2009, 5:15 PM CDT for Douglas County, Minnesota. It was in force for 45 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 27, 2009, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2009, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
County Douglas County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 331 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
- 856 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 269 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
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 27, 1:48 PM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 1:48 PM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 148 PM CDT SAT JUN 27 2009 .DISCUSSION... COLD FRONT AND SFC TROUGH FORECAST TO PUSH EAST OF OUR CWA OVER INTO CENTRAL WISCONSIN BY 700 PM. SHRA/TSRA MAINLY OCCURRING EAST AND ALONG THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY. INSTABILITY AND ASSOCIATED COOL POOL OVER NORTHERN MN...EXPECTED TO GLANCE OUR NORTHERN MN PORTION OF OUR FORECAST THIS EVENING. MLCAPE VALUES 400 J/KG OR GREATER CLIP PORTION OF NORTHERN TOOD AND MORRISON COUNTIES. LONGWAVE UPPER TROUGH LAGS OVER THE EASTERN SEABOARD DURING THE NEXT 132 HOURS. SHORTWAVE TROUGH OVER THE WESTERN GREAT LAKES...WILL SLOWLY GET OBSORBED INTO THE TROUGH OVER THE EASTERN CONUS. EC MODEL(EUROPEAN MODEL) INDICATED SOME RETROGRESSION OF THE TROUGH BACK OVER THE WESTERN GREAT LAKES EARLY NEXT WEEK. THE MAIN CHALLENGE IN THE MEDIUM RANGE WILL BE MAX TEMPERATURES. 500 MB HEIGHTS OVER THE UPPER MIDWEST LOWER BETWEEN 568 DAM TO 576 DAM TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. THUS...MAX TEMPS GENLY IN THE LOWER 70S OVER WESTERN WISCONSIN AND CLOSE TO 80 DEGREES IN THE FAR SOUTHWEST PORTION OF CWA. OVERNIGHT LOWS IN THE 50S TO LOWER 60S. EARLIER...I HAD FOLLOWED THE GFS MODEL ENSEMBLE...WHICH TRIED TO WARM TEMPERATURES TO MUCH TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. HAVE OPTED TO BACK OFF ON MAX TEMPERATURES. BY THE END OF THE WORK WEEK...TEMPERATURES SHOULD BEGIN TO MODERATE BACK INTO THE UPPER 70S TO MIDDLE 80S AS UPPER RIDGE OVER THE WESTERN CONUS STARTS TO FLATTEN OUT OVER THE NORTHERN PLAINS. && .AVIATION.../18Z TAF ISSUANCE/ SFC COLD FRONT ABOUT TO PASS KMSP SOON AFTER 18Z WITH FROPA THEN TO OCCUR ACROSS WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN TAF SITES THROUGH 22Z. NARROW RIBBON OF SHOWERS ALONG WITH SOME TOWERING CU SIGNS THAT INSTABILITY HAS BUILT BACK AHEAD OF THIS FRONT. DO EXPECT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND EVENTUALLY THUNDERSTORMS TO REDEVELOP ACROSS WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. MVFR CIGS BEHIND THE FRONT HAVE BEGUN TO SHOW IMPROVEMENT. THESE ARE JUST WEST NORTHWEST OF THE TWIN CITIES METRO AREA AND SHOULD ONLY EXPAND SLIGHTLY MORE BEFORE BEGINNING TO RETREAT DUE TO AFTERNOON HEATING AND SOME MIXING. UPPER LEVEL LOW TO APPROACH WRN MN LATE THIS AFTN AND EVE AND POSSIBLY BRING SOME SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS TO NEAR KAXN. OTHERWISE...LOW LEVEL DRY AIR ADVECTION SHOULD HELP ANY CLOUDS TO REMAIN VFR TONIGHT. WITH THE AMOUNT OF COLD AIR ADVECTION AND LOW LEVEL LAPSE RATES PROGGED TOMORROW...VFR CU/STRATOCU IS EXPECTED. WINDS WITH THE FRONTAL PASSAGE WILL SWING FROM SSW TO W. WITH PRESSURE RISES AND UNIDIRECTIONAL FLOW...INCREASING SUSTAINED SPEEDS WILL OCCUR WITH GUSTS. WINDS WILL ONLY SLACKEN TO 10 TO 14 KTS TONIGHT BEFORE A VERY BREEZY DAY TOMORROW. SOME GUSTS HIGHER THAN 30 KTS ARE POSSIBLE TOMORROW AFTN. ..MTF.. && .MPX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MN...NONE. WI...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 5:12 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 512 PM CDT SAT JUN 27 2009 MNZ041>045-047>070-073>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ014>016-023>028- 281100- 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- 512 PM CDT SAT JUN 27 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MINNESOTA...AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THROUGH THE EVENING IN PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL AND CENTRAL MINNESOTA. TDK
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 5:15 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 515 PM CDT SAT JUN 27 2009 MNZ041-042-048-049-272300- DOUGLAS-POPE-STEARNS-TODD- 515 PM CDT SAT JUN 27 2009 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO DOUGLAS...POPE...STEARNS AND TODD COUNTIES THROUGH 600 PM CDT... AT 513 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR GARFIELD. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. PEA SIZE HAIL AND WINDS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... GARFIELD. ALEXANDRIA. NELSON. OSAKIS. WEST UNION. LAT...LON 4591 9480 4563 9501 4588 9566 4605 9558 TIME...MOT...LOC 2214Z 288DEG 35KT 4594 9550
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 6:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Stevens, Swift, Yellow Medicine | 70 min |
| Jun 27, 8:31 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Saint Croix | 29 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.