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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Jun 28, 2015, 3:00 PM CDT for Goodhue County, Minnesota. It was in force for 30 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 28, 2015, 3:00 PM CDT (20:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 2015, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
County Goodhue County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 866 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
565
WWUS83 KMPX 282000
SPSMPX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
300 PM CDT SUN JUN 28 2015
MNZ078-WIZ024-282030-
GOODHUE-PIERCE-
300 PM CDT SUN JUN 28 2015
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHEASTERN GOODHUE AND SOUTH
CENTRAL PIERCE COUNTIES...
AT 259 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER WACOUTA...OR NEAR RED
WING...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH AND DIME SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM. THERE HAS ALSO BEEN SOME SIGNS OF ROTATION WITH THIS STORM.
FUNNEL CLOUDS MAY BE POSSIBLE.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
RED WING...BAY CITY...FRONTENAC...WACOUTA...ESDAILE...FRONTENAC STATE
PARK...HAGER CITY AND RED WING AIRPORT.
LAT...LON 4444 9262 4464 9256 4461 9232 4445 9232
4445 9243 4439 9243 4439 9244
TIME...MOT...LOC 1959Z 002DEG 14KT 4453 9243
$$
CLFThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle | 80 min |
| Jun 27, 9:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Stearns | 46 min |
| Jun 27, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 53 min |
| Jun 27, 9:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Benton, Sherburne | 40 min |
| Jun 27, 9:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stevens | 53 min |
| Jun 27, 9:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Pope | 47 min |
| Jun 27, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 29 min |
| Jun 27, 10:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Kanabec, Mille Lacs | 28 min |
| Jun 27, 10:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chippewa | 37 min |
| Jun 27, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope | 44 min |
| Jun 27, 10:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Swift | 46 min |
| Jun 27, 10:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 58 min |
| Jun 27, 11:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Redwood | 36 min |
| Jun 28, 1:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Blue Earth | 26 min |
| Jun 28, 3:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Hennepin, Ramsey | 42 min |
| Jun 28, 4:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Scott | 32 min |
| Jun 28, 5:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Le Sueur | 29 min |
| Jun 28, 6:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Dunn | 28 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.