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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2015, 6:33 PM CDT for Redwood County, Renville County, Minnesota. It was in force for 57 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 6, 2015, 6:33 PM CDT (23:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2015, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 132 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.
994
WWUS83 KMPX 062333
SPSMPX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
633 PM CDT THU AUG 6 2015
MNZ065-073-070030-
REDWOOD-RENVILLE-
633 PM CDT THU AUG 6 2015
...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT CENTRAL RENVILLE AND
REDWOOD COUNTIES...
AT 633 PM CDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM DELHI TO NEAR MARSHALL...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH AND NICKEL SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
STORMS.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
REDWOOD FALLS...MORGAN...WABASSO...FRANKLIN...MORTON...BELVIEW...
VESTA...LUCAN...CLEMENTS...SEAFORTH...DELHI AND NORTH REDWOOD.
THIS INCLUDES U.S. HIGHWAY 71 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 61 AND 95.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR
SOUTHWESTERN MINNESOTA.
LAT...LON 4454 9552 4455 9536 4470 9537 4479 9529
4470 9469 4448 9482 4449 9487 4442 9486
4428 9495 4444 9559 4446 9559
TIME...MOT...LOC 2333Z 271DEG 32KT 4460 9518 4447 9568
$$
CLFThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 3:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Douglas, Pope, Todd | 59 min |
| 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 |
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.