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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Jun 6, 2015, 5:32 PM CDT for Chippewa County, Minnesota. It was in force for 43 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 6, 2015, 5:32 PM CDT (22:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2015, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
County Chippewa County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 237 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
- 42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -168 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1110 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 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 Jun 6, 4:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 4:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 6, 3:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 358 PM CDT SAT JUN 6 2015 MNZ042>045-049>053-058>063-066>070-075>078-083>085-092-093- WIZ014>016-023>028-072100- TODD-MORRISON-MILLE LACS-KANABEC-STEARNS-BENTON-SHERBURNE-ISANTI- CHISAGO-MEEKER-WRIGHT-HENNEPIN-ANOKA-RAMSEY-WASHINGTON-MCLEOD- SIBLEY-CARVER-SCOTT-DAKOTA-NICOLLET-LE SUEUR-RICE-GOODHUE- BLUE EARTH-WASECA-STEELE-FARIBAULT-FREEBORN-POLK-BARRON-RUSK- ST. CROIX-PIERCE-DUNN-PEPIN-CHIPPEWA-EAU CLAIRE- 358 PM CDT SAT JUN 6 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA...EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST WISCONSIN AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...THROUGH TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT. AREAS EAST OF A LINE FROM ALEXANDRIA TO MANKATO AND ALBERT LEA WILL HAVE LOCALLY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WITH LOCALIZED FLOODING. SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS WILL ALSO ACCOMPANY THE STRONGEST STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE AGAIN POSSIBLE FOR THE SECOND HALF OF NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT LIKELY EAST OF ALEXANDRIA TO ALBERT LEA. MNZ041-047-048-054>057-064-065-073-074-082-091-072100- DOUGLAS-STEVENS-POPE-LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA-KANDIYOHI- YELLOW MEDICINE-RENVILLE-REDWOOD-BROWN-WATONWAN-MARTIN- 358 PM CDT SAT JUN 6 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA...SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. .DAY ONE...THROUGH TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY THIS EVENING. AREAS WEST OF A LINE FROM ALEXANDRIA TO MANKATO TO ALBERT LEA WILL HAVE LOCALLY STRONG OR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL WILL ACCOMPANY THE STRONGEST STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE AGAIN POSSIBLE FOR THE SECOND HALF OF NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WEST OF A LINE FROM MONTEVIDEO TO REDWOOD FALLS AND FAIRMONT. JLT
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 5:32 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 532 PM CDT SAT JUN 6 2015 MNZ055>057-062315- KANDIYOHI-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA- 532 PM CDT SAT JUN 6 2015 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT WESTERN KANDIYOHI...NORTHEASTERN CHIPPEWA AND SOUTHEASTERN SWIFT COUNTIES... AT 531 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR GLUEK...OR 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF MONTEVIDEO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH AND DIME SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... WILLMAR...RAYMOND...KERKHOVEN...MURDOCK...PENNOCK...SUNBURG... PRIAM...GLUEK AND WILLMAR AIRPORT. TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE. THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. LAT...LON 4495 9558 4508 9569 4538 9520 4503 9493 TIME...MOT...LOC 2231Z 243DEG 32KT 4505 9553 DWE
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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.