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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 21, 2013Lac qui Parle County, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 2013, 1:52 AM CDT for Lac qui Parle County, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. It was in force for 53 min. 1 report 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 21, 2013, 1:52 AM CDT (06:52 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 2013, 2:45 AM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Lac qui Parle County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:52 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 21, 2:20 AM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	4 Wnw Watson, MN	FEW TREES DOWN NEAR LAC QUI PARLE STATE PARK

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

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 20, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 187 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: 1271 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -171 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1606 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

614 
WUUS53 KMPX 210652
SVRMPX
MNC073-173-210745-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0064.130621T0652Z-130621T0745Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
152 AM CDT FRI JUN 21 2013

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
  WESTERN YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...

* UNTIL 245 AM CDT

* AT 146 AM CDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
  EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF APPLETON TO 8 MILES WEST OF
  MADISON TO 11 MILES WEST OF MORITZ...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25
  MPH.

  HAZARD...70 MPH WIND GUSTS AND NICKEL SIZE HAIL.

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.

  IMPACT...EXPECT CONSIDERABLE TREE DAMAGE. DAMAGE IS LIKELY TO
           MOBILE HOMES...ROOFS AND OUTBUILDINGS.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MADISON...CANBY...CERRO GORDO...DAWSON...BURR...PROVIDENCE...
  BOYD...ST LEO...PORTER AND CLARKFIELD.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 4502 9646 4514 9622 4520 9614 4516 9605
      4499 9582 4495 9581 4494 9576 4490 9570
      4490 9567 4485 9561 4462 9613 4463 9646
TIME...MOT...LOC 0652Z 306DEG 21KT 4509 9607 4496 9631
          4477 9673

HAIL...0.88IN
WIND...70MPH

$$

BRB

1 follow-up statement

334 
WWUS53 KMPX 210710
SVSMPX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
210 AM CDT FRI JUN 21 2013

MNC073-173-210745-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0064.000000T0000Z-130621T0745Z/
LAC QUI PARLE MN-YELLOW MEDICINE MN-
210 AM CDT FRI JUN 21 2013

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN YELLOW
MEDICINE AND LAC QUI PARLE COUNTIES UNTIL 245 AM CDT...

AT 205 AM CDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES EAST OF MADISON TO 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF GARY
TO 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MORITZ...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

HAZARD...70 MPH WIND GUSTS AND NICKEL SIZE HAIL.

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.

IMPACT...EXPECT CONSIDERABLE TREE DAMAGE. DAMAGE IS LIKELY TO MOBILE
         HOMES...ROOFS AND OUTBUILDINGS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CANBY...DAWSON...BURR...PROVIDENCE...BOYD...ST LEO...PORTER AND
CLARKFIELD.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION. THESE STORMS ARE PRODUCING WIDESPREAD 
WIND DAMAGE. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY 
AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

&&

LAT...LON 4502 9646 4514 9622 4520 9614 4516 9605
      4499 9582 4495 9581 4494 9576 4490 9570
      4490 9567 4485 9561 4462 9613 4463 9646
TIME...MOT...LOC 0710Z 306DEG 23KT 4500 9596 4488 9629
          4471 9658

HAIL...0.88IN
WIND...70MPH

$$

BRB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 20, 8:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Douglas	42 min
Jun 20, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Douglas, Pope, Stearns, Todd	66 min
Jun 20, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Stevens	61 min
Jun 20, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Todd	25 min
Jun 20, 10:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	MPX	Benton, Chippewa, Douglas, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Meeker and 7 more	9 hr
Jun 20, 10:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine	64 min
Jun 20, 11:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Pope	54 min
Jun 20, 11:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Pope, Stevens	6 hr
Jun 21, 12:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Pope	64 min
Jun 21, 12:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Benton, Morrison	47 min
Jun 21, 12:19 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Pope	6 hr
Jun 21, 12:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Douglas, Stevens	55 min
Jun 21, 12:50 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Stevens	5 hr
Jun 21, 12:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Lac qui Parle, Pope, Stevens, Swift	64 min
Jun 21, 12:58 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Douglas, Pope, Stearns, Todd	5 hr
Jun 21, 1:31 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Pope	29 min
Jun 21, 1:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Stearns, Swift	53 min
Jun 21, 1:46 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Pope, Stearns	5 hr
Jun 21, 2:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi, McLeod, Meeker, Renville, Stearns, Wright	67 min
Jun 21, 2:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Benton, Sherburne, Stearns, Wright	67 min
Jun 21, 2:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Kandiyohi	45 min
Jun 21, 2:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver, Hennepin, McLeod, Wright	64 min
Jun 21, 3:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Anoka, Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Sherburne	56 min
Jun 21, 3:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Brown, McLeod, Nicollet, Redwood, Renville, Sibley	61 min
Jun 21, 3:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota, Ramsey, Scott, Washington	57 min
Jun 21, 4:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Rice, Steele, Waseca, Watonwan	53 min
Jun 21, 4:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Goodhue, Rice	65 min
Jun 21, 6:03 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	MPX	Douglas, Pope, Stearns, Stevens, Todd	6 hr
Jun 21, 6:25 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Faribault, Freeborn, Martin, Waseca	4 hr
Jun 21, 6:39 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Faribault, Freeborn	4 hr
Jun 21, 7:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Faribault	32 min
Jun 21, 8:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Faribault, Martin	38 min
Jun 21, 10:54 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MPX	Todd	6 days
Jun 21, 3:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	MPX	Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 36 more	15 hr
Jun 21, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine	59 min
Jun 21, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Lac qui Parle	13 min
Jun 21, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine	62 min
Jun 21, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Swift	55 min
Jun 21, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Redwood, Renville, Yellow Medicine	59 min
Jun 21, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Douglas, Pope, Stevens	66 min
Jun 21, 5:20 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MPX	Douglas, Pope, Stearns, Stevens, Todd	6 hr
Jun 21, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Swift	57 min
Jun 21, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi, Meeker, Stearns	52 min
Jun 21, 5:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Pope, Stevens	6 hr
Jun 21, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Redwood, Renville, Yellow Medicine	63 min
Jun 21, 6:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Morrison	68 min
Jun 21, 6:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	McLeod	43 min
Jun 21, 6:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Anoka, Carver, Chisago, Hennepin, Isanti, Ramsey and 3 more	2 hr
Jun 21, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Meeker, Stearns	49 min
Jun 21, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver, McLeod, Wright	38 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.