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 22, 2012, 3:07 PM CDT for 5 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 38 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 22, 2012, 3:07 PM CDT (20:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2012, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Benton County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Sherburne County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 2248 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WWUS83 KMPX 222007
SPSMPX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
307 PM CDT WED AUG 22 2012
MNZ042>045-049>052-059-222045-
BENTON-ISANTI-KANABEC-MILLE
LACS-MORRISON-SHERBURNE-STEARNS-TODD-WRIGHT-
307 PM CDT WED AUG 22 2012
...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OVER CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
AT 300 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
STAPLES...TO 3 MILES EAST OF LITTLE FALLS...TO 8 MILES NORTH OF ELK
RIVER. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
SOME TOWNS AFFECTED BY THE STORMS INCLUDE...LITTLE FALLS...CUSHING...
FOLEY...ST CLOUD...PRINCETON AND ZIMMERMAN.
HAIL UP TO DIME SIZE AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE
STORMS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
SEEK SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
&&
LAT...LON 4631 9455 4634 9443 4630 9435 4627 9433
4623 9438 4616 9436 4617 9391 4614 9384
4553 9312 4529 9400 4588 9447 4624 9510
4636 9472 4636 9466
TIME...MOT...LOC 2005Z 245DEG 14KT 4623 9487 4598 9427
4546 9355
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 12:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Carver, McLeod | 53 min |
| Aug 22, 1:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Carver, Hennepin, Scott, Wright | 54 min |
| Aug 22, 1:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker, Wright | 47 min |
| Aug 22, 2:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Hennepin, Sherburne | 59 min |
| Aug 22, 3:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Anoka, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Washington | 79 min |
| Aug 22, 3:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | McLeod, Meeker | 53 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.