Alert archive / Minnesota / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Jul 1, 2012, 4:52 PM CDT for Renville County, Minnesota. It was in force for 23 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 1, 2012, 4:52 PM CDT (21:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2012, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
County Renville County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 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
- 1200 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1457 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
062 WWUS83 KMPX 012152 SPSMPX SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 452 PM CDT SUN JUL 1 2012 MNZ065-067-012215- RENVILLE-SIBLEY- 452 PM CDT SUN JUL 1 2012 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO/DEVELOPING OVER RENVILLE AND SIBLEY COUNTIES THROUGH 515 PM CDT... AT 450 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR BUFFALO LAKE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. HAIL UP TO DIME SIZE AND WINDS UP TO 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... BUFFALO LAKE. LAKESIDE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... && LAT...LON 4487 9478 4487 9452 4469 9454 4469 9468 TIME...MOT...LOC 2152Z 180DEG 16KT 4476 9463 $$ CLF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 2:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Martin | 52 min |
| Jul 1, 2:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Brown | 35 min |
| Jul 1, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Nicollet, Renville, Sibley | 31 min |
| Jul 1, 3:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Sibley | 36 min |
| Jul 1, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sibley | 28 min |
| Jul 1, 4:14 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 36 more | 37 hr |
| Jul 1, 5:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Renville | 31 min |
| Jul 1, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Renville | 27 min |
| Jul 1, 5:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Kanabec | 24 min |
| Jul 1, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kanabec | 28 min |
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.