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 6, 2015, 3:16 PM CDT for Douglas County, Pope County, Todd County, Minnesota. It was in force for 59 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 6, 2015, 3:16 PM CDT (20:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2015, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Douglas County, MN, Pope County, MN, Todd County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 171 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 4:08 PM CDT | TORNADO | 4 W Sunburg, MN | SPOTTED OVER A FARM FIELD |
| Aug 6, 4:20 PM CDT | HAIL 1.5 | 4 Nne Sunburg, MN | MOSTLY NICKEL AND QUARTER SIZED. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 960 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
425
WWUS83 KMPX 062016
SPSMPX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
316 PM CDT THU AUG 6 2015
MNZ041-042-048-049-055-057-062115-
STEARNS-KANDIYOHI-DOUGLAS-POPE-SWIFT-TODD-
316 PM CDT THU AUG 6 2015
...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT NORTHWESTERN STEARNS...
POPE...EASTERN DOUGLAS...NORTHWESTERN KANDIYOHI...WESTERN TODD AND
NORTHEASTERN SWIFT COUNTIES...
AT 316 PM CDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM NEAR ALMORA TO NEAR LAKE HASSEL...AND MOVING EAST AT
30 MPH.
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH AND DIME SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
STORMS.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ALEXANDRIA...SAUK CENTRE...LONG PRAIRIE...GLENWOOD...OSAKIS...
STARBUCK...NEW LONDON...BROWERVILLE...BROOTEN...BELGRADE...CLARISSA
AND EAGLE BEND.
THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS...
INTERSTATE 94 IN MINNESOTA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 97 AND 132.
U.S. HIGHWAY 12 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 45 AND 48.
U.S. HIGHWAY 8 IN MINNESOTA NEAR MILE MARKER 6.
U.S. HIGHWAY 71 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 134 AND 209.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY
CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
THESE STORMS 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.
LAT...LON 4624 9484 4526 9488 4528 9558 4611 9548
4611 9515 4623 9514
TIME...MOT...LOC 2016Z 266DEG 28KT 4623 9544 4536 9554
$$
JLTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 4:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Lac qui Parle | 53 min |
| Aug 6, 4:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Swift | 36 min |
| Aug 6, 4:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Todd | 42 min |
| Aug 6, 4:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 31 min |
| Aug 6, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison, Todd | 30 min |
| Aug 6, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 32 min |
| Aug 6, 5:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 31 min |
| Aug 6, 5:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 37 min |
| Aug 6, 5:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 30 min |
| Aug 6, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 44 min |
| Aug 6, 6:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Meeker, Stearns | 23 min |
| Aug 6, 6:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Redwood, Renville | 57 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.