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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Twin Cities, MN

May 16, 2015Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2015, 4:44 PM CDT for Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota. It was in force for 31 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 16, 2015, 4:44 PM CDT (21:44 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 2015, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Lac qui Parle County, MN

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 168 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -146 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 720 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 112 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.

292 
WUUS53 KMPX 162144
SVRMPX
MNC073-162215-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0012.150516T2144Z-150516T2215Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
444 PM CDT SAT MAY 16 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 444 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  BELLINGHAM...OR 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ORTONVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 25 MPH.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE 
           TO ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES. 

* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
  NORTHWESTERN LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING
  LOCATIONS...BIG STONE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 4526 9638 4525 9629 4522 9627 4522 9622
      4521 9621 4510 9625 4515 9642
TIME...MOT...LOC 2144Z 204DEG 22KT 4519 9628 

TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

MPG

1 follow-up statement

743 
WWUS53 KMPX 162214
SVSMPX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
514 PM CDT SAT MAY 16 2015

MNC073-162224-
/O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0012.000000T0000Z-150516T2215Z/
LAC QUI PARLE MN-
514 PM CDT SAT MAY 16 2015

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN LAC QUI PARLE
COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 515 PM CDT...
    
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF 
THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

LAT...LON 4526 9638 4525 9629 4522 9627 4522 9622
      4521 9621 4510 9625 4515 9642
TIME...MOT...LOC 2213Z 204DEG 22KT 4519 9628 

$$

MPG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 16, 12:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Kandiyohi	38 min
May 16, 3:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Yellow Medicine	32 min
May 16, 4:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Chippewa	29 min
May 16, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Yellow Medicine	44 min
May 16, 4:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Lac qui Parle	16 min
May 16, 5:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Swift	25 min
May 16, 5:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Stevens	33 min
May 16, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa	25 min
May 16, 5:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	MPX	Swift	36 min
May 16, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Swift	17 min
May 16, 5:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	MPX	Chippewa, Swift	23 min
May 16, 6:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Swift	34 min
May 16, 6:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Renville	39 min
May 16, 6:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Pope, Swift	34 min
May 16, 6:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Meeker	36 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.