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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 12, 2013Faribault County, Freeborn County, Waseca County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2013, 4:11 PM CDT for Faribault County, Freeborn County, Waseca County, Minnesota. It was in force for 49 min. 10 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 12, 2013, 4:11 PM CDT (21:11 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2013, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Faribault County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Waseca County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:13 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 12, 4:20 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Minnesota Lake, MN	LARGE TREES ON 3 HOMES AND A GARAGE, POWER LINES DOWN DUE TO A TREE AND LARGE LIMB FALLING ACROSS THEM. SHINGLES RIPPED OFF SOME BUILDINGS. LATE REPORT.
Jun 12, 4:20 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 71	Minnesota Lake, MN	LATE REPORT.
Jun 12, 4:20 PM CDT	HAIL 0.88	Minnesota Lake, MN	LATE REPORT.
Jun 12, 4:35 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 57	Minnesota Lake, MN
Jun 12, 4:57 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	3 Nnw Wells, MN	DAMAGED BARN
Jun 12, 4:57 PM CDT	HAIL 2.75	Wells, MN	DAMAGE TO ROOFS ALSO REPORTED.
Jun 12, 5:00 PM CDT	HAIL 1.75	3 E Wells, MN	TIME ESTIMATED BASED ON RADAR
Jun 12, 5:00 PM CDT	HAIL 1.75	3 W Freeborn, MN	TIME ESTIMATED BASED ON RADAR
Jun 12, 5:05 PM CDT	HAIL 1.75	3 Nw Alden, MN	TIME ESTIMATED BASED ON RADAR.
Jun 12, 5:05 PM CDT	HAIL 1.75	3 Sw Freeborn, MN	TIME ESTIMATED BASED ON RADAR.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 112 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 912 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

320 
WUUS53 KMPX 122111
SVRMPX
MNC043-047-161-122200-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0040.130612T2111Z-130612T2200Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
411 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2013

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN FARIBAULT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
  NORTHWESTERN FREEBORN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
  SOUTHERN WASECA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 409 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 20 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF BLUE EARTH...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

  HAZARD...QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WIND GUSTS.

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.

  IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE TO
           ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MINNESOTA LAKE...WALDORF...WELLS...BARODA...OTISCO...FREEBORN...NEW
  RICHLAND AND HARTLAND.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 4385 9409 4385 9378 4397 9377 4393 9340
      4379 9341 4367 9360
TIME...MOT...LOC 2111Z 283DEG 25KT 4388 9386

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH

$$

JRB

3 follow-up statements

961 
WWUS53 KMPX 122125
SVSMPX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
425 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2013

MNC043-047-161-122200-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0040.000000T0000Z-130612T2200Z/
FARIBAULT MN-FREEBORN MN-WASECA MN-
425 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2013

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN
WASECA...NORTHWESTERN FREEBORN AND NORTHEASTERN FARIBAULT COUNTIES
UNTIL 500 PM CDT...

AT 422 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 20 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF WASECA...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

HAZARD...GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND 70 MPH WIND GUSTS.

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WIND 
         DAMAGE.

IMPACT...PEOPLE AND ANIMALS OUTDOORS WILL BE INJURED. EXPECT HAIL
         DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES. EXPECT
         CONSIDERABLE TREE DAMAGE. WIND DAMAGE IS ALSO LIKELY TO
         MOBILE HOMES...ROOFS AND OUTBUILDINGS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WELLS...BARODA...OTISCO...FREEBORN...NEW RICHLAND AND HARTLAND.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 4385 9409 4385 9378 4397 9377 4393 9340
      4379 9341 4367 9360
TIME...MOT...LOC 2125Z 283DEG 25KT 4386 9373

HAIL...1.75IN
WIND...70MPH

$$

JRB

536 
WWUS53 KMPX 122139
SVSMPX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
439 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2013

MNC043-047-161-122200-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0040.000000T0000Z-130612T2200Z/
FARIBAULT MN-FREEBORN MN-WASECA MN-
439 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2013

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN
WASECA...NORTHWESTERN FREEBORN AND NORTHEASTERN FARIBAULT COUNTIES
UNTIL 500 PM CDT...

AT 436 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 20 MILES NORTHEAST 
OF BLUE EARTH OR NEAR MINNESOTA LAKE...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

HAZARD...GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND 70 MPH WIND GUSTS.

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.

IMPACT...PEOPLE AND ANIMALS OUTDOORS WILL BE INJURED. EXPECT HAIL
         DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...WINDOWS...VEHICLES AND CROPS.
         EXPECT CONSIDERABLE TREE DAMAGE. WIND DAMAGE IS ALSO LIKELY
         TO MOBILE HOMES...ROOFS AND OUTBUILDINGS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WALDORF...WELLS...BARODA...FREEBORN...HARTLAND AND NEW RICHLAND.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 4385 9409 4385 9378 4394 9377 4389 9341
      4379 9341 4367 9360
TIME...MOT...LOC 2138Z 285DEG 23KT 4384 9381

HAIL...1.75IN
WIND...70MPH

$$

240 
WWUS53 KMPX 122150
SVSMPX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
450 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2013

MNC043-047-161-122200-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0040.000000T0000Z-130612T2200Z/
FARIBAULT MN-FREEBORN MN-WASECA MN-
450 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2013

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN
WASECA...NORTHWESTERN FREEBORN AND NORTHEASTERN FARIBAULT COUNTIES
UNTIL 500 PM CDT...

AT 449 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 21 MILES NORTHWEST
OF ALBERT LEA...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

HAZARD...GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND 70 MPH WIND GUSTS.

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.

IMPACT...PEOPLE AND ANIMALS OUTDOORS WILL BE INJURED. EXPECT HAIL
         DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...WINDOWS...VEHICLES AND CROPS.
         EXPECT CONSIDERABLE TREE DAMAGE. WIND DAMAGE IS ALSO LIKELY
         TO MOBILE HOMES...ROOFS AND OUTBUILDINGS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WELLS...BARODA...FREEBORN...HARTLAND AND NEW RICHLAND.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 4378 9390 4385 9389 4385 9376 4394 9376
      4389 9341 4379 9341 4367 9360
TIME...MOT...LOC 2150Z 285DEG 23KT 4382 9371

HAIL...1.75IN
WIND...70MPH

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 5:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Lac qui Parle	66 min
Jun 12, 6:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift, Yellow Medicine	58 min
Jun 12, 8:07 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MPX	Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, McLeod, Scott, Sibley	3 hr
Jun 12, 8:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Rice	40 min
Jun 12, 9:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Goodhue	39 min
Jun 12, 10:54 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MPX	Carver, Scott, Sibley	3 hr
Jun 12, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth	45 min
Jun 12, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Faribault, Freeborn	66 min
Jun 12, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Freeborn	32 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.