Alert archive / Minnesota / Special Weather Statements in 2015
Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2015, 12:33 AM CDT for Brown County, Minnesota. It was in force for 27 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
- Aug 2, 2015, 12:33 AM CDT (05:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2015, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
County Brown County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 1730 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1483 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 218 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 333 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 14.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
933
WWUS83 KMPX 020533
SPSMPX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1233 AM CDT SUN AUG 2 2015
MNZ074-020600-
BROWN-
1233 AM CDT SUN AUG 2 2015
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN BROWN COUNTY
THROUGH 100 AM CDT...
AT 1232 AM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR HANSKA...OR 10 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF NEW ULM...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH AND NICKEL SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
NEW ULM...HANSKA AND SEARLES.
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.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY. THEY CAN RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
OFFICE IN THE TWIN CITIES.
LAT...LON 4411 9464 4422 9469 4432 9445 4427 9442
4426 9437 4411 9437
TIME...MOT...LOC 0532Z 249DEG 19KT 4417 9456
$$
JPCThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 1:02 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Blue Earth | 58 min |
| Aug 2, 2:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Waseca | 60 min |
| Aug 2, 4:20 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Kanabec | 25 min |
| Aug 2, 8:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Douglas, Todd | 59 min |
| Aug 2, 8:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Todd | 32 min |
| Aug 2, 8:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns, Todd | 37 min |
| Aug 2, 9:37 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Stearns | 23 min |
| Aug 2, 11:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Isanti, Sherburne | 40 min |
| Aug 2, 12:58 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Rusk | 62 min |
| Aug 2, 6:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Rusk | 40 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.