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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2011, 8:13 PM CDT for McLeod County, Minnesota. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report 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
- Aug 6, 2011, 8:13 PM CDT (01:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2011, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
County McLeod County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 8:30 PM CDT | HAIL 1.5 | 3 Nw Silver Lake, MN | QUARTER TO PING-PONG SIZE HAIL REPORTED NEAR 220TH ST. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 931 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1415 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
165
WWUS83 KMPX 070113
SPSMPX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
813 PM CDT SAT AUG 6 2011
MNZ058-059-066-070200-
MCLEOD-MEEKER-WRIGHT-
813 PM CDT SAT AUG 6 2011
...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OVER MCLEOD...MEEKER AND WRIGHT COUNTIES
THROUGH 900 PM CDT...
AT 808 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DASSEL. THIS STORM WAS MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
HAIL UP TO NICKEL SIZE AND WINDS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM.
* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
DASSEL.
STOCKHOLM.
SILVER LAKE.
WINSTED.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THIS THUNDERSTORM COULD INTENSIFY QUICKLY...SO BE READY TO ACT IF A
WARNING IS ISSUED.
&&
LAT...LON 4514 9437 4498 9401 4491 9402 4478 9417
4500 9452
TIME...MOT...LOC 0113Z 308DEG 18KT 4502 9434
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker, Stearns, Wright | 33 min |
| Aug 6, 7:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Meeker | 44 min |
| Aug 6, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Meeker, Wright | 43 min |
| Aug 6, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, McLeod, Sibley | 44 min |
| Aug 6, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Le Sueur, Rice, Scott | 45 min |
| Aug 6, 10:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Steele | 43 min |
| Aug 7, 7:27 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MPX | Todd | 5 days |
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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.