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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Aug 30, 2010, 8:26 PM CDT for Lac qui Parle County, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. It was in force for 94 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, 8:26 PM CDT (01:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 30, 2010, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 94 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Lac qui Parle County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 176 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 178 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, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 7:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
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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, 34 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
826 PM CDT MON AUG 30 2010
MNZ054>056-064-310300-
CHIPPEWA-LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-YELLOW MEDICINE-
826 PM CDT MON AUG 30 2010
...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO WESTERN CHIPPEWA...LAC QUI
PARLE...WESTERN SWIFT AND YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTIES THROUGH 1000 PM
CDT...
AT 822 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM WAVERLY SOUTH DAKOTA TO
TEN MILES WEST OF BROOKINGS SOUTH DAKOTA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.
WINDS UP TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...
NASSAU.
BELLINGHAM.
BURR.
CANBY.
CERRO GORDO.
PROVIDENCE.
MILAN.
MADISON.
DAWSON.
APPLETON.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THE GUSTY WINDS WILL BE CAPABLE OF KNOCKING DOWN SMALL TREES...TREE
LIMBS...AND POWERLINES. SEEK SAFE SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
THIS THUNDERSTORM COULD INTENSIFY QUICKLY...SO BE READY TO ACT IF A
WARNING IS ISSUED.
RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE HALF TO ONE AND A HALF INCHES ARE POSSIBLE
FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH EARLY OVERNIGHT. THIS MAY RESULT IN
BRIEF RUNOFF PROBLEMS AND PONDING OF WATER ON AREA ROADWAYS.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA THROUGH 200 AM
TUESDAY MORNING.
&&
LAT...LON 4527 9646 4528 9643 4526 9632 4520 9612
4541 9613 4541 9574 4533 9570 4494 9573
4464 9583 4462 9645 4476 9647
TIME...MOT...LOC 0122Z 233DEG 52KT 4514 9683 4453 9693
4414 9701The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 7:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Stevens | 68 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.