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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Jun 25, 2013, 3:20 PM CDT for Waseca County, Minnesota. It was in force for 40 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 25, 2013, 3:20 PM CDT (20:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2013, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
County Waseca County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 358 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
- 1993 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 969 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 5.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 25, 1:02 PM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 1:02 PM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 25, 12:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1248 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 2013 MNZ041>045-047>070-073>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ014>016-023>028- 261800- DOUGLAS-TODD-MORRISON-MILLE LACS-KANABEC-STEVENS-POPE-STEARNS- BENTON-SHERBURNE-ISANTI-CHISAGO-LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA- KANDIYOHI-MEEKER-WRIGHT-HENNEPIN-ANOKA-RAMSEY-WASHINGTON- YELLOW MEDICINE-RENVILLE-MCLEOD-SIBLEY-CARVER-SCOTT-DAKOTA- REDWOOD-BROWN-NICOLLET-LE SUEUR-RICE-GOODHUE-WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH- WASECA-STEELE-MARTIN-FARIBAULT-FREEBORN-POLK-BARRON-RUSK- ST. CROIX-PIERCE-DUNN-PEPIN-EAU CLAIRE- 1248 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MINNESOTA... AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THE PRIMARY HAZARD IS LARGE HAIL WITH SECONDARY HAZARD OF DAMAGING WINDS. IN ADDITION...THUNDERSTORM CLUSTERS WITH LITTLE MOTION MAY BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN WHICH COULD LEAD TO ADDITIONAL FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THE SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES WEDNESDAY MORNING ACROSS FAR EASTERN MINNESOTA AND WESTERN WISCONSIN. LARGE HAIL WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE PRIMARY THREAT WITH A SECONDARY THREAT FOR DAMAGING WINDS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY MORNING. BORGHOFF
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Special weather statement, Jun 25, 3:20 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
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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.