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 Aug 4, 2012, 1:13 AM CDT for Martin County, Minnesota. It was in force for 47 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
- Aug 4, 2012, 1:13 AM CDT (06:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2012, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
County Martin County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 576 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1840 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 7.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
117
WWUS83 KMPX 040613
SPSMPX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
113 AM CDT SAT AUG 4 2012
MNZ082-083-091-092-040700-
BLUE EARTH-FARIBAULT-MARTIN-WATONWAN-
113 AM CDT SAT AUG 4 2012
AT 111 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF ORMSBY
TO 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TRIMONT TO 4 MILES WEST OF CEYLON. THESE
STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
HAIL UP TO NICKEL SIZE AND WINDS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE
STORMS.
* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...
FOXLAKE.
SOUTH BRANCH.
WILBERT.
LEWISVILLE.
GRANADA.
EAST CHAIN.
LAT...LON 4399 9403 4374 9403 4350 9405 4350 9474
4373 9471 4396 9470
TIME...MOT...LOC 0613Z 267DEG 26KT 4388 9464 4372 9464
4354 9468
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 7:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift, Yellow Medicine | 46 min |
| Aug 3, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine | 53 min |
| Aug 3, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Renville, Swift, Yellow Medicine | 55 min |
| Aug 3, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope, Stevens | 49 min |
| Aug 3, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Redwood, Renville, Yellow Medicine | 59 min |
| Aug 3, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Meeker, Pope, Renville, Stearns and 2 more | 53 min |
| Aug 3, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, McLeod, Nicollet, Redwood, Renville and 1 more | 58 min |
| Aug 3, 9:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Meeker, Renville, Sherburne, Stearns, Wright | 38 min |
| Aug 3, 10:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Anoka, Carver, Hennepin, McLeod, Sherburne, Wright | 65 min |
| Aug 3, 10:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Le Sueur, Nicollet, Rice, Scott | 61 min |
| Aug 3, 10:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Hennepin | 36 min |
| Aug 3, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Isanti, Mille Lacs, Sherburne, Wright | 46 min |
| Aug 3, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Carver, Hennepin, Sherburne, Wright | 25 min |
| Aug 3, 11:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Freeborn, Martin, Steele, Waseca | 44 min |
| Aug 3, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey and 2 more | 39 min |
| Aug 3, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Chisago, Isanti | 33 min |
| Aug 3, 11:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue, Rice, Scott, Washington | 42 min |
| Aug 3, 11:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago, Washington | 67 min |
| Aug 3, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue, Washington | 61 min |
| Aug 4, 12:19 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Brown | 26 min |
| Aug 4, 1:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Martin | 65 min |
| Aug 4, 4:28 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Faribault | 47 min |
| Aug 4, 12:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Barron, Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire, Pepin, Rusk | 62 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.