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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Oct 4, 2013, 6:00 PM CDT for Freeborn County, Minnesota. It was in force for 60 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
- Oct 4, 2013, 6:00 PM CDT (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 4, 2013, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
County Freeborn County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 552 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 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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</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 Oct 4, 3:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 4, 3:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
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</html>In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 4, 6:00 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 600 PM CDT FRI OCT 4 2013 MNZ092-093-050000- FARIBAULT-FREEBORN- 600 PM CDT FRI OCT 4 2013 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO/DEVELOPING OVER FARIBAULT AND FREEBORN COUNTIES THROUGH 700 PM CDT... AT 555 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAKE MILLS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. HAIL UP TO DIME SIZE AND WINDS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... KIESTER. EMMONS. TWIN LAKES. CONGER. ALBERT LEA. ALBERT LEA AIRPORT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... SEEK SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. && LAT...LON 4350 9373 4385 9358 4385 9307 4349 9328 TIME...MOT...LOC 2259Z 209DEG 40KT 4335 9363
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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.