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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN

August 31, 2010Goodhue County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Aug 31, 2010, 5:32 PM CDT for Goodhue County, Minnesota. It was in force for 43 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 31, 2010, 5:32 PM CDT (22:32 UTC)
Expired: Aug 31, 2010, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN

County Goodhue County, MN

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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 31, 1:47 PM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 31, 1:47 PM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 31, 4:51 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 31, 3:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
330 PM CDT TUE AUG 31 2010

MNZ083>085-091>093-312145-
BLUE EARTH-FARIBAULT-FREEBORN-MARTIN-STEELE-WASECA-
330 PM CDT TUE AUG 31 2010

...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO BLUE EARTH...FARIBAULT...FREEBORN...
EASTERN MARTIN...STEELE AND WASECA COUNTIES THROUGH 445 PM CDT...

AT 326 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS TRACKING STRENGTHENING
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM ESTHERVILLE TO KIESTER.
THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

PEA SIZE HAIL AND WINDS UP TO 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...
  CEYLON.
  WILBERT.
  EMMONS.
  FAIRMONT.
  FROST.
  GLENVILLE.
  ALBERT LEA.
  BLUE EARTH.
  GOOD THUNDER.
  CLARKS GROVE.
  WASECA.
  OWATONNA.
  INTERSTATES 90 AND 35.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS THUNDERSTORM COULD INTENSIFY QUICKLY...SO BE READY TO ACT IF A
WARNING IS ISSUED.

REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO THE
STORM TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. SEEK SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.

RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE INCH PER HOUR OR GREATER ARE POSSIBLE UNDER
SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS. THIS MAY RESULT IN BRIEF RUNOFF
PROBLEMS AND PONDING OF WATER ON AREA ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 4350 9477 4408 9414 4419 9415 4416 9404
      4419 9400 4422 9402 4424 9401 4424 9378
      4420 9377 4419 9304 4349 9306
TIME...MOT...LOC 2026Z 237DEG 25KT 4332 9481 4337 9390

Special weather statement, Aug 31, 4:49 PM CDT, 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 31, 5:32 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The 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, 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, 5:59 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

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Minnesota, 2010 Every special weather statement in 2010

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.