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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN

May 8, 2014Sherburne County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at May 8, 2014, 2:21 PM CDT for Sherburne County, Minnesota. It was in force for 24 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 8, 2014, 2:21 PM CDT (19:21 UTC)
Expired
May 8, 2014, 2:45 PM CDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN

County Sherburne County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 61 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2014-05-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2014-05-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -27 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
955 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-85 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

715 
WWUS83 KMPX 081921
SPSMPX

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
221 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2014

MNZ051-059-061-081945-
ANOKA-SHERBURNE-WRIGHT-
221 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2014

...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO ANOKA...SHERBURNE AND WRIGHT COUNTIES 
THROUGH 245 PM CDT...

AT 217 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTH OF BUFFALO. THIS STORM WAS MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

HAIL UP TO NICKEL SIZE AND WINDS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  SILVER CREEK.
  MONTICELLO.
  BIG LAKE.
  SAND DUNES STATE FOREST.
  ZIMMERMAN.
  PRINCETON AIRPORT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

&&

LAT...LON 4542 9351 4541 9349 4515 9377 4525 9399
      4556 9375 4556 9351
TIME...MOT...LOC 1922Z 212DEG 40KT 4529 9380

$$

JRB

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 7, 7:20 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXBenton, Sherburne, Stearns55 min
May 7, 8:47 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXBlue Earth, Le Sueur, Nicollet58 min
May 7, 8:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBlue Earth, Le Sueur, Nicollet62 min
May 7, 9:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBlue Earth, Le Sueur, Waseca55 min
May 7, 9:22 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXSherburne68 min
May 7, 10:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXLe Sueur, Rice, Waseca61 min
May 7, 10:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRice48 min
May 7, 11:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXDakota, Rice, Scott38 min
May 7, 11:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXCarver, Hennepin, Scott49 min
May 8, 12:32 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXHennepin, Ramsey, Washington43 min
May 8, 2:02 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXIsanti43 min
May 8, 2:10 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXMcLeod35 min
May 8, 2:23 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXKandiyohi52 min
May 8, 3:05 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXBenton40 min
May 8, 6:09 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXWatonwan36 min
May 8, 7:08 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXDakota37 min
May 8, 8:13 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXWatonwan32 min
May 8, 8:37 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXNicollet23 min
May 8, 9:44 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXMartin46 min
May 8, 10:02 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXRedwood43 min
May 8, 10:20 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXFaribault25 min
May 8, 10:48 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXWaseca42 min
May 8, 11:18 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXLac qui Parle42 min
May 8, 11:27 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXRice48 min
May 8, 11:48 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXAnoka, Hennepin42 min
May 8, 12:01 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXStevens29 min
May 8, 12:22 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXWright23 min
May 8, 1:08 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXBrown37 min
May 8, 1:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBrown, Redwood34 min
May 8, 1:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXStevens31 min
May 8, 2:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXFaribault33 min
May 8, 2:55 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXCarver, Freeborn, Le Sueur, Rice, Scott, Steele and 1 more50 min
May 8, 3:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXDakota, Goodhue, Rice, Steele23 min
May 8, 3:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXLe Sueur, Rice28 min
May 8, 3:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXDakota, Scott52 min
May 8, 3:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXGoodhue, Steele49 min
May 8, 3:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXWashington47 min
May 8, 4:10 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXWatonwan35 min
May 8, 4:29 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXWatonwan31 min
May 8, 4:55 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMPXBlue Earth, Brown, Watonwan35 min
May 8, 5:15 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMPXBlue Earth, Nicollet45 min
May 8, 5:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXNicollet, Sibley49 min
May 8, 5:34 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXMcLeod41 min
May 8, 6:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXCarver32 min
May 8, 6:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXCarver31 min
May 8, 5:01 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXChippewa, Dunn, Rusk59 min

Nearby

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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.