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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Apr 21, 2014, 5:01 AM CDT for Brown County, Minnesota. It was in force for 44 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
- Apr 21, 2014, 5:01 AM CDT (10:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 21, 2014, 5:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
County Brown County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 2278 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 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 Apr 21, 4:06 AM CDT, 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 21, 4:06 AM CDT, 55 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Apr 21, 2:30 AM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 230 AM CDT MON APR 21 2014 MNZ057-058-210815- KANDIYOHI-MEEKER- 230 AM CDT MON APR 21 2014 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OVER KANDIYOHI AND MEEKER COUNTIES THROUGH 315 AM CDT... AT 229 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WILLMAR...OR 20 MILES SOUTH OF SIBLEY STATE PARK. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. HAIL UP TO DIME SIZE IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... KANDIYOHI. ATWATER. COSMOS. STROUT. CORVUSO. CEDAR MILLS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO THE STORM TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. SEEK SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. && LAT...LON 4512 9449 4491 9453 4497 9501 4515 9496 TIME...MOT...LOC 0730Z 280DEG 22KT 4505 9486
Special weather statement, Apr 21, 2:58 AM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 258 AM CDT MON APR 21 2014 MNZ070-077-210845- DAKOTA-RICE- 258 AM CDT MON APR 21 2014 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OVER DAKOTA AND RICE COUNTIES THROUGH 345 AM CDT... AT 252 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES EAST OF NEW PRAGUE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. ONE HALF INCH DIAMETER HAIL IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... WEBSTER. DUNDAS. NORTHFIELD. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO THE STORM TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. SEEK SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. && LAT...LON 4455 9305 4435 9304 4442 9350 4455 9348 TIME...MOT...LOC 0758Z 275DEG 25KT 4450 9336
Special weather statement, Apr 21, 5:01 AM CDT, 0 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Apr 21, 2:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Meeker | 45 min |
| Apr 21, 2:54 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Faribault, Lac qui Parle, Martin and 7 more | 16 hr |
| Apr 21, 2:58 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Rice | 47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.