Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 160, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2012, 6:08 PM CDT for Pope County, Stevens County, Swift County, Minnesota. It was in force for 67 min. 5 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, 2012, 6:08 PM CDT (23:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2012, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Pope County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 179 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 6:46 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | Holloway, MN | |
| Jun 17, 6:57 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Hancock, MN | ALSO HEAVY RAIN |
| Jun 17, 6:59 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | Hancock, MN | |
| Jun 17, 7:00 PM CDT | HAIL 1.25 | Hancock, MN | HAIL LASTED 5 TO 7 MINUTES. |
| Jun 17, 7:24 PM CDT | HAIL 1.25 | 2 S Starbuck, 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, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 1861 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
192
WUUS53 KMPX 172308
SVRMPX
MNC121-149-151-180015-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0160.120617T2308Z-120618T0015Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
608 PM CDT SUN JUN 17 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
POPE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
STEVENS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
SWIFT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 715 PM CDT
* AT 604 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OF 60 MPH. THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR APPLETON...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH OF
MADISON...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
MORRIS...
BENSON...
GLENWOOD...
APPLETON...
HOLLOWAY...
CHOKIO...
ALBERTA...
DANVERS...
DONNELLY...
HANCOCK...
CLONTARF...
CYRUS...
STARBUCK...
SEDAN...
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 1000 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN MINNESOTA.
&&
LAT...LON 4576 9515 4544 9513 4541 9521 4541 9525
4539 9525 4515 9578 4515 9603 4520 9612
4523 9611 4524 9613 4540 9613 4541 9624
4576 9625
TIME...MOT...LOC 2308Z 240DEG 28KT 4524 9603
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 10:22 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Brown, Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Redwood, Swift, Yellow Medicine | 53 min |
| Jun 17, 5:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Swift | 43 min |
| Jun 17, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle | 47 min |
| Jun 17, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle | 36 min |
| Jun 17, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Pope, Swift | 34 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.