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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2012, 4:28 AM CDT for Faribault 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, 4:28 AM CDT (09:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2012, 5:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
County Faribault County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 143 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.
221
WWUS83 KMPX 040928
SPSMPX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
428 AM CDT SAT AUG 4 2012
MNZ091-092-041015-
FARIBAULT-MARTIN-
428 AM CDT SAT AUG 4 2012
AT 426 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTH OF BLUE EARTH...OR 31 MILES WEST OF LAKE
MILLS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
HAIL UP TO DIME SIZE AND WINDS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM. IN ADDITION EXPECT TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS PRODUCING UP TO ONE
INCH OF RAINFALL IN LESS THEN 45 MINUTES.
* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
ELMORE.
BLUE EARTH.
FROST.
BRICELYN.
EASTON.
BRUSH CREEK.
LAT...LON 4353 9429 4381 9411 4383 9366 4354 9365
4349 9391 4349 9424
TIME...MOT...LOC 0927Z 238DEG 32KT 4358 9409
$$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, 1:13 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Martin | 47 min |
| Aug 4, 1:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Martin | 65 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.