Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2011, 8:18 PM CDT for Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. It was in force for 27 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 17, 2011, 8:18 PM CDT (01:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2011, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Kandiyohi County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 8:30 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 3 Ene Svea, MN | MOSTLY PEAS AND NICKLES. |
| Jun 17, 8:35 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 4 Ne Svea, MN | |
| Jun 17, 8:45 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 6 S Kandiyohi, MN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 7:22 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 1159 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1224 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
930 WUUS53 KMPX 180118 SVRMPX MNC067-180145- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0080.110618T0118Z-110618T0145Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 818 PM CDT FRI JUN 17 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN KANDIYOHI COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 815 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTH OF KANDIYOHI...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WILLMAR...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE... SVEA... KANDIYOHI... ATWATER... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN MINNESOTA. && LAT...LON 4515 9476 4498 9477 4498 9510 4515 9501 TIME...MOT...LOC 0118Z 233DEG 7KT 4505 9491 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.25IN $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 22 min |
| Jun 17, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 26 min |
| Jun 17, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Martin | 55 min |
| Jun 17, 7:57 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MPX | Kandiyohi | 3 hr |
| Jun 17, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 33 min |
| Jun 17, 8:25 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 6 hr |
| Jun 17, 8:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Big Stone | 58 min |
| Jun 17, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift | 57 min |
| Jun 17, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine | 35 min |
| Jun 17, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Scott, Sibley | 66 min |
| Jun 17, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Renville, Swift, Yellow Medicine | 53 min |
| Jun 17, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Scott, Sibley | 48 min |
| Jun 17, 11:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker, Stearns | 65 min |
| Jun 17, 11:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Dakota | 56 min |
| Jun 18, 12:09 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Benton, Meeker, Stearns | 51 min |
| Jun 18, 12:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Morrison, Sherburne, Stearns | 54 min |
| Jun 18, 6:38 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Dakota | 37 min |
| Jun 18, 11:58 AM CDT | Flood Watch | MPX | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Dakota and 14 more | 20 hr |
| Jun 18, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 44 min |
| Jun 18, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 47 min |
| Jun 18, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 53 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.