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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 12, 2013Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Jun 12, 2013, 5:39 AM CDT for Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota. It was in force for 66 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: Jun 12, 2013, 5:39 AM CDT (10:39 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2013, 6:45 AM CDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN

County Lac qui Parle County, MN

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 3031 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 194 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

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The text

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

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What forecasters said that day

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 Jun 11, 3:23 PM CDT, 14 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 3:23 PM CDT, 14 hours 16 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 11, 11:38 AM CDT, 18 hours 1 minute before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
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, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Faribault, Freeborn, Waseca	49 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

Special Weather Statements in Minnesota, 2013 Every special weather statement in 2013

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.