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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Jul 14, 2010, 9:14 PM CDT for Rusk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 31 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, 2010, 9:14 PM CDT (02:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2010, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
County Rusk County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 3038 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1237 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 9.6
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 Jul 14, 7:03 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 7:03 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 703 PM CDT WED JUL 14 2010 .UPDATE... 00Z AVIATION DISCUSSION ADDED BELOW. && .DISCUSSION... MAIN CONCERN IS THE SHORT TERM AND SEVER WEATHER POTENTIAL FOR THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. THE ATMOSPHERE CONTINUES TO DESTABILIZE...MID TO UPPER 70 DEW POINTS THROUGH OUT THE CWA EXCEPT FOR NORTHEASTERN COUNTIES. CAP STILL IN PLACE AND IS HOLDING BACK SIGNIFICANT OUTBREAK OF CONVECTION. MIXED LAYER CAPES ARE BETWEEN 2000 AND 4000 J/KG DESPITE AN ABUNDANCE OF CLOUD COVER. SCATTERED CONVECTION BREAKING OUT ACROSS EASTERN MN AND WESTERN WI. SCATTERED SHOWERS ALSO BREAKING OUT OVER NORTHWEST CWA NEAR AXN...IN RESPONSE TO ERODING CAP AND FRONT. MESO ANALYSIS FROM SPC SHOWS ERODING CAP. THIS WILL HAVE TO WATCHED CLOSELY. HRRR INDICATES CAP WOULD LIKE TO ERODE ENOUGH TO GET MORE WIDESPREAD CONVECTION BY 21Z AND RADAR IS BEGINNING TO SHOW THIS. SHEAR AND TORNADO PARAMETERS ARE VERY IMPRESSIVE AND THREAT OF TORNADOES HIGH FROM 20 TO 23Z IN EASTERN MN. THE ACTIVITY LOCATED AROUND AXN MOVES EAST WE WILL BE IN THE CLEAR IN TERMS OF SEVERE WEATHER...CLEARING THE CWA BY 05Z. LITTLE CHANGED IN THE GRIDS BEYOND TONIGHT WITH ENERGY SPENT ON THE AFTERNOON/EVENING AHEAD. IT STILL LOOKS LIKE SATURDAY AFTERNOON/SATURDAY NIGHT COULD BRING ANOTHER CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER. && .AVIATION.../00Z TAF ISSUANCE/ MAIN THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS OUT OF THE TERMINALS. A FEW SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A VERY ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM AMY BE NOTED IN SOUTHERN MN BETWEEN MSP AND THE IOWA BORDER WITH ANOTHER AREA 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF MSP MOVING EAST NORTHEAST. DO NOT EXPECT ANY THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY AT THE TERMINALS THROUGH THE TAF PERIOD. IN FACT VERY BENIGN WEATHER...EXCEPT FOR WINDS. MORE ON THAT BELOW. A COLD FRONT EXTENDS FROM LOW PRESSURE IN MANITOBA TO A WEAK LOW PRESSURE ON THE MN WI BORDER TO CENTRAL KANSAS. AHEAD OF THE FRONT IN SOUTHEAST MN WINDS ARE SOUTHWEST AROUND 10 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 18 MPH...IN WI WINDS ARE SOUTHEAST 4-7 KTS. BEHIND THE FRONT WINDS ARE NORTHWEST AROUND 13 KTS WITH GUSTS TO 23 KTS. EXPECT THE FRONT TO MOVE THROUGH MSP BY 00Z...THROUGH KRNH BY 02Z AND EAU BY 03Z. EXPECT NORTHWEST WINDS BEHIND THE FRONT TO BE IN THE 10-11 KT RANGE UNTIL 15Z AND WITH SOME MIXING AFT 15Z WE CAN EXPECT WINDS TO GUST TO AROUND 18 KTS IN THE EAST WITH HIGHER GUSTS OUT WEST...AXN/RWF/STC IN THE AFTERNOON HOURS. A FEW050 OUT THERE DUE TO SUN AND BOUNDARY LAYER MOISTURE. A WEAK WAVE AND ASSOCIATED MOISTURE MOVES THROUGH THE NORTHERN PART OF MN IN THE AFTERNOON AND WE CAN EXPECT SCT100...CHANCE OF BKN100...AXN/STC. KMSP...FRONT IS ON OUR DOORSTEP AS OF 00Z AND NOTED IN RADAR IMAGERY. SOME LOW CLOUDS TO LINGER THROUGH THE NIGHT WITH A GRADUAL DECLINE IN WIND SPEEDS FROM 12KTS TO 9 KTS. MAY SEE SOME GUSTS FROM 00Z TO 04Z IN THE RANGE OF 18-23 KTS. EXPECT A FEW CUMULUS AROUND 050 FEET DUE TO DAY TIME HEATING WITH SOME WIND GUSTS TO 17 KTS UNTIL 23Z AND THEN A SIGNIFICANT DECREASE IN WINDS. MAY SEE BKN100 AFT 16/00Z. && .MPX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MN...NONE. WI...NONE. && JPR/DRL
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 14, 9:01 PM CDT, 13 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 14, 8:25 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 825 PM CDT WED JUL 14 2010 WIZ028-150215- EAU CLAIRE- 825 PM CDT WED JUL 14 2010 AT 818 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF STRUM. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. ONE HALF INCH DIAMETER HAIL AND WINDS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM AS IT TRACKS ACROSS SOUTHERN EAU CLAIRE COUNTY. SOME COMMUNITIES WHICH MIGHT BE AFFECTED THROUGH 915 PM ARE FOSTER...AUGUSTA...AND FAIRCHILD. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THIS THUNDERSTORM COULD INTENSIFY QUICKLY...SO BE READY TO ACT IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. && LAT...LON 4459 9162 4468 9163 4478 9091 4460 9092 TIME...MOT...LOC 0123Z 262DEG 25KT 4461 9144 BAP
Local storm report, Jul 14, 8:45 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn | 50 min |
| Jul 14, 7:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Goodhue | 42 min |
| Jul 14, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Steele | 48 min |
| Jul 14, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 44 min |
| Jul 14, 7:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Saint Croix | 52 min |
| Jul 14, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Saint Croix | 24 min |
| Jul 14, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn, Saint Croix | 51 min |
| Jul 14, 8:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Eau Claire | 50 min |
| Jul 14, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron, Dunn | 43 min |
| Jul 14, 9:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Eau Claire | 42 min |
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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.