Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 17, 2016Jackson County, Minnesota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2016, 6:14 PM CDT for Jackson County, Minnesota. It was in force for 31 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: Jun 17, 2016, 6:14 PM CDT (23:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2016, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Jackson County, MN

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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
Jun 17, 6:28 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 50	2 Ene Wilder, MN	.
Jun 17, 6:40 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 53	3 S Lakefield, MN	.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 17, 3:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 177 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1540 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

911 
WUUS53 KFSD 172314
SVRFSD
MNC063-172345-
/O.NEW.KFSD.SV.W.0064.160617T2314Z-160617T2345Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
614 PM CDT FRI JUN 17 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  JACKSON COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN MINNESOTA...

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 613 PM CDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
  EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES EAST OF BERGEN TO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  WINDOM TO 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FULDA...MOVING SOUTH AT 30 MPH.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. 

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  BERGEN AROUND 620 PM CDT. 
  KILEN WOODS STATE PARK AROUND 625 PM CDT. 
  LAKEFIELD AROUND 630 PM CDT. 
  JACKSON IN JACKSON COUNTY AROUND 635 PM CDT. 

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THESE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS INCLUDE
OKABENA...WILDER AND ALPHA.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 4357 9486 4353 9500 4358 9545 4385 9545
      4385 9486
TIME...MOT...LOC 2313Z 341DEG 27KT 4382 9486 4379 9519 4383 9550 

HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

SCHUMACHER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lincoln	49 min
Jun 17, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lyon	47 min
Jun 17, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lincoln	37 min
Jun 17, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lyon, Murray	44 min
Jun 17, 5:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FSD	Lincoln	3 hr
Jun 17, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Jackson	32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2016 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2016

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.