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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Jul 14, 2009, 1:42 PM CDT for Todd County, Minnesota. It was in force for 78 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
- Jul 14, 2009, 1:42 PM CDT (18:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2009, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 78 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
County Todd County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1035 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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 Jul 14, 1:05 PM CDT, 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 1:05 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 14, 12:54 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1254 PM CDT TUE JUL 14 2009 MNZ041>045-047>070-073>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ014>016-023>028- 151800- 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- 1254 PM CDT TUE JUL 14 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MINNESOTA...AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME MORE NUMEROUS THIS AFTERNOON AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT PUSHING ACROSS THE EASTERN DAKOTAS. THESE STORMS WILL SPREAD EAST ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA DURING THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SEVERE WEATHER...INCLUDING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE. A FEW TORNADOES MAY ALSO OCCUR...PRIMARILY WEST OF THE INTERSTATE 35 CORRIDOR. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED ACROSS WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA AFTER 3 PM...AND ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 1:42 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
142 PM CDT TUE JUL 14 2009
MNZ042-043-142000-
MORRISON-TODD-
142 PM CDT TUE JUL 14 2009
...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OVER MORRISON AND TODD COUNTIES THROUGH 300
PM CDT...
AT 141 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 3 MILES NORTH OF VERNDALE
TO 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF STAPLES TO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF SAUK
CENTRE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
PEA SIZE HAIL AND WINDS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.
* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...
CLOTHO.
WEST UNION.
STAPLES.
PHILBROOK.
MOTLEY.
CUSHING.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO THE
STORM TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. SEEK SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
&&
LAT...LON 4631 9455 4634 9442 4629 9434 4626 9434
4623 9439 4617 9436 4616 9390 4577 9503
4578 9513 4599 9515 4616 9507 4637 9509
4638 9473
TIME...MOT...LOC 1842Z 244DEG 41KT 4645 9497 4620 9495
4581 9513
TRHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 2:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Stearns | 41 min |
| Jul 14, 2:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Morrison | 49 min |
| Jul 14, 3:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Pope | 39 min |
| Jul 14, 3:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Todd | 38 min |
| Jul 14, 3:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Kandiyohi | 39 min |
| Jul 14, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 28 min |
| Jul 14, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison, Todd | 43 min |
| Jul 14, 4:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Pope | 49 min |
| Jul 14, 4:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Pope, Swift | 37 min |
| Jul 14, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker, Stearns | 39 min |
| Jul 14, 4:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker, Stearns | 46 min |
| Jul 14, 4:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Pope, Stearns | 42 min |
| Jul 14, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 50 min |
| Jul 14, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker, Stearns | 45 min |
| Jul 14, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Douglas | 47 min |
| Jul 14, 5:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Stearns | 28 min |
| Jul 14, 5:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Todd | 37 min |
| Jul 14, 5:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Morrison, Todd | 2 hr |
| Jul 14, 5:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Benton | 25 min |
| Jul 14, 5:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Todd | 66 min |
| Jul 14, 6:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Benton | 26 min |
| Jul 14, 6:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Sherburne | 23 min |
| Jul 14, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Sherburne, Stearns | 52 min |
| Jul 14, 6:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Benton, Sherburne, Stearns | 42 min |
| Jul 14, 6:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Morrison | 51 min |
| Jul 14, 6:41 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MPX | Benton, Stearns | 4 hr |
| Jul 14, 6:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Sherburne | 48 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.