Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 2016, 9:17 PM CDT for Dakota County, Goodhue County, Minnesota; Pierce County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 28 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
- Apr 24, 2016, 9:17 PM CDT (02:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2016, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Dakota County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Pierce County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 866 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 388 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
179 WUUS53 KMPX 250217 SVRMPX MNC037-049-WIC093-250245- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0001.160425T0217Z-160425T0245Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 917 PM CDT SUN APR 24 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL DAKOTA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... CENTRAL GOODHUE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA... SOUTHWESTERN PIERCE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN... * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 916 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER WANAMINGO...OR 17 MILES NORTH OF MANTORVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT 65 MPH. HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS. SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. * THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... GOODHUE AROUND 925 PM CDT. RED WING AND WELCH AROUND 935 PM CDT. OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE HADER... HAGER CITY...RED WING AIRPORT...VASA...DIAMOND BLUFF AND MIESVILLE. THIS INCLUDES U.S. HIGHWAY 61 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 88 AND 105. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING. TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. && LAT...LON 4420 9264 4422 9287 4472 9279 4470 9241 TIME...MOT...LOC 0216Z 192DEG 56KT 4431 9274 HAIL...<.75IN WIND...60MPH $$ DWE
2 follow-up statements
882 WWUS53 KMPX 250229 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 929 PM CDT SUN APR 24 2016 MNC037-049-WIC093-250245- /O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0001.000000T0000Z-160425T0245Z/ DAKOTA MN-GOODHUE MN-PIERCE WI- 929 PM CDT SUN APR 24 2016 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR EAST CENTRAL DAKOTA...CENTRAL GOODHUE AND SOUTHWESTERN PIERCE COUNTIES... AT 929 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR VASA...OR 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RED WING...MOVING NORTH AT 50 MPH. HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS. SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. THIS SEVERE STORM WILL BE NEAR... RED WING AND WELCH AROUND 940 PM CDT. OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE HADER... HAGER CITY...RED WING AIRPORT...VASA...DIAMOND BLUFF AND MIESVILLE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING. && LAT...LON 4420 9264 4440 9284 4472 9279 4470 9241 TIME...MOT...LOC 0229Z 186DEG 44KT 4443 9272 HAIL...<.75IN WIND...60MPH $$ DWE
075
WWUS53 KMPX 250240
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
940 PM CDT SUN APR 24 2016
MNC037-049-WIC093-250249-
/O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0001.000000T0000Z-160425T0245Z/
DAKOTA MN-GOODHUE MN-PIERCE WI-
940 PM CDT SUN APR 24 2016
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL DAKOTA...CENTRAL
GOODHUE AND SOUTHWESTERN PIERCE COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 945 PM CDT...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS. THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. HOWEVER
WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
LAT...LON 4420 9264 4440 9284 4472 9279 4470 9241
TIME...MOT...LOC 0237Z 192DEG 56KT 4443 9272
$$
DWEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 7:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Blue Earth, Martin | 23 min |
| Apr 24, 7:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Brown, Watonwan | 34 min |
| Apr 24, 7:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Faribault, Nicollet | 47 min |
| Apr 24, 8:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Freeborn, Le Sueur, Steele, Waseca | 32 min |
| Apr 24, 8:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Rice, Steele, Waseca | 13 min |
| Apr 24, 8:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Steele | 16 min |
| Apr 24, 8:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Goodhue, Rice | 24 min |
| Apr 24, 10:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Martin, Watonwan | 40 min |
| Apr 24, 10:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Martin, Watonwan | 34 min |
| Apr 25, 8:04 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Hennepin | 41 min |
| Apr 25, 4:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Le Sueur | 33 min |
| Apr 25, 5:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Waseca | 48 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 2016Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.