Alert archive / Minnesota / Special Weather Statements in 2011
Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Jul 27, 2011, 3:49 AM CDT for 4 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 56 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 27, 2011, 3:49 AM CDT (08:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2011, 4:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Brown County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Sibley County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1713 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
358
WWUS83 KMPX 270849
SPSMPX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
349 AM CDT WED JUL 27 2011
MNZ058-065>069-074>076-083-270945-
BLUE EARTH-BROWN-CARVER-LE
SUEUR-MCLEOD-MEEKER-NICOLLET-RENVILLE-SCOTT-SIBLEY-
349 AM CDT WED JUL 27 2011
...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OVER BLUE EARTH...BROWN...CARVER...LE
SUEUR...MCLEOD...MEEKER...NICOLLET...RENVILLE...SCOTT AND SIBLEY
COUNTIES THROUGH 445 AM CDT...
AT 340 AM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO TRACK ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES EAST OF BIRD ISLAND TO 3 MILES WEST OF GIBBON
TO 8 MILES SOUTH OF SLEEPY EYE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35
MPH.
PEA SIZE HAIL...WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE
EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.
* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...
NEW ULM.
BUFFALO LAKE.
GAYLORD.
HUTCHINSON.
GLENCOE.
BROWNTON.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA UNTIL 6AM.
&&
LAT...LON 4452 9465 4482 9490 4498 9411 4470 9379
4428 9398 4410 9478 4411 9483 4411 9484
TIME...MOT...LOC 0846Z 255DEG 32KT 4480 9473 4454 9450
4420 9467
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 8:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Douglas, Stevens | 64 min |
| Jul 26, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Pope, Stevens, Swift | 54 min |
| Jul 26, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Douglas, Lac qui Parle, Pope, Stevens, Swift | 79 min |
| Jul 26, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Pope, Stearns, Swift | 61 min |
| Jul 27, 12:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago, Dakota and 20 more | 9 hr |
| Jul 27, 2:22 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec | 23 min |
| Jul 27, 3:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Brown | 59 min |
| Jul 27, 5:24 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Martin, Watonwan | 4 hr |
Nearby
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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.