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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at May 19, 2013, 11:06 PM CDT for Eau Claire County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 39 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
- May 19, 2013, 11:06 PM CDT (04:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2013, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
County Eau Claire County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 751 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 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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The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Twin Cities, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at May 19, 10:41 PM CDT, 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 19, 10:41 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 359 AM CDT SUN MAY 19 2013 MNZ041>045-047>052-054>059-064>066-073-074-200900- DOUGLAS-TODD-MORRISON-MILLE LACS-KANABEC-STEVENS-POPE-STEARNS- BENTON-SHERBURNE-ISANTI-LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA-KANDIYOHI- MEEKER-WRIGHT-YELLOW MEDICINE-RENVILLE-MCLEOD-REDWOOD-BROWN- 359 AM CDT SUN MAY 19 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA...EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SEVERAL ROUNDS OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN HEAVY RAIN...POSSIBLY FOR PROLONGED PERIODS. THERE IS A RISK THAT FLOODING...OR EVEN FLASH FLOODING...MAY OCCUR IN SOME AREAS...ESPECIALLY THOSE THAT RECEIVED EXCESSIVE RAINFALL YESTERDAY AND ABNORMALLY HIGH TOTALS THUS FAR THIS MONTH. THE EXCESSIVE RAINFALL MAY CAUSE RISES IN RIVERS... STREAMS...AND MAY ALSO CAUSE URBAN FLOODING. IN ADDITION TO THE HEAVY RAIN...SOME STORMS MAY BE STRONG TO SEVERE THROUGH TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NEARLY THE ENTIRE COVERAGE AREA THROUGH TONIGHT. PRIMARY HAZARDS ARE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY PERIODS OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE INTO TUESDAY. SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP. THE EXCESSIVE RAINFALL MAY CAUSE RISES IN RIVERS... STREAMS...AND MAY ALSO CAUSE URBAN FLOODING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT. MNZ053-060>063-067>070-075>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ014>016-023>028- 200900- CHISAGO-HENNEPIN-ANOKA-RAMSEY-WASHINGTON-SIBLEY-CARVER-SCOTT- DAKOTA-NICOLLET-LE SUEUR-RICE-GOODHUE-WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH-WASECA- STEELE-MARTIN-FARIBAULT-FREEBORN-POLK-BARRON-RUSK-ST. CROIX- PIERCE-DUNN-PEPIN-CHIPPEWA-EAU CLAIRE- 359 AM CDT SUN MAY 19 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA...EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST WISCONSIN AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SEVERAL ROUNDS OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN HEAVY RAIN...POSSIBLY FOR PROLONGED PERIODS. THERE IS A RISK THAT FLOODING...OR EVEN FLASH FLOODING...MAY OCCUR IN SOME AREAS...ESPECIALLY THOSE THAT RECEIVED EXCESSIVE RAINFALL YESTERDAY AND ABNORMALLY HIGH TOTALS THUS FAR THIS MONTH. THE EXCESSIVE RAINFALL MAY CAUSE RISES IN RIVERS... STREAMS...AND MAY ALSO CAUSE URBAN FLOODING. IN ADDITION TO THE HEAVY RAIN...SOME STORMS MAY BE STRONG TO SEVERE THROUGH TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NEARLY THE ENTIRE COVERAGE AREA THROUGH TONIGHT. PRIMARY HAZARDS ARE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY PERIODS OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE INTO TUESDAY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP ON MONDAY. THE EXCESSIVE RAINFALL MAY CAUSE RISES IN RIVERS... STREAMS...AND MAY ALSO CAUSE URBAN FLOODING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON...THROUGH TONIGHT...AND AGAIN ON MONDAY.
In the hours before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 8:50 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MPX | Todd | 3 days |
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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.