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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Aug 30, 2010, 7:52 PM CDT for Stevens County, Minnesota. It was in force for 68 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
- Aug 30, 2010, 7:52 PM CDT (00:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 30, 2010, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
County Stevens County, MN
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 187 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 875 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1007 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
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 Aug 30, 7:08 PM CDT, 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 7:08 PM CDT, 44 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 30, 6:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 617 PM CDT MON AUG 30 2010 MNZ041>045-047>070-073>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ014>016-023>028- 311100- 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- 617 PM CDT MON AUG 30 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MINNESOTA...AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL INCREASE ACROSS THE MINNESOTA PORTION OF THE OUTLOOK AREA TONIGHT AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHES FROM THE DAKOTAS. SOME OF THE STORMS ACROSS WEST CENTRAL...AND PARTS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA MAY BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. THERE WILL ALSO BE TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS WITH THE STORMS WHICH MAY RESULT IN THE PONDING OF WATER IN LOW AREAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TUESDAY AND TUESDAY EVENING ACROSS MOST OF THE OUTLOOK AREA...ALTHOUGH CHANCES FOR STORMS WILL BE DECREASING OVER WESTERN MINNESOTA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT OVER EASTERN AND SOUTHERN MINNESOTA INTO WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES RETURN FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY AS A STRONG LOW PRESSURE TROUGH MOVES ACROSS THE PLAINS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT AND AGAIN ON TUESDAY. RAH
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 30, 7:52 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 8:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine | 94 min |
| Aug 30, 9:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chippewa, Douglas, Pope, Stevens, Swift | 74 min |
| Aug 30, 10:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Kandiyohi, Todd | 66 min |
| Aug 30, 11:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Benton, Morrison, Stearns | 64 min |
| Aug 30, 11:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine | 51 min |
| Aug 30, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine | 45 min |
| Aug 31, 1:24 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Stearns | 36 min |
| Aug 31, 1:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Stearns | 41 min |
| Aug 31, 2:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Isanti, Sherburne, Wright | 41 min |
| Aug 31, 3:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Freeborn, Martin, Steele, Waseca | 75 min |
| Aug 31, 4:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn | 56 min |
| Aug 31, 4:52 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Freeborn, Goodhue, Rice, Steele and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 31, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 39 min |
| Aug 31, 5:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Goodhue | 43 min |
| Aug 31, 5:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Pierce | 46 min |
| Aug 31, 6:04 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MPX | Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire, Pepin, Pierce, Rusk | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pepin, Pierce | 40 min |
| Aug 31, 6:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Eau Claire, Pepin | 30 min |
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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.