Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 2016, 8:34 AM CDT for Rice County, Minnesota. It was in force for 26 min. 1 report 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 30, 2016, 8:34 AM CDT (13:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 2016, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Rice County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:34 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 30, 8:35 AM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 3 E Faribault, MN | NICKEL SIZED HAIL REPORTED. TIME ESTIMATED. . |
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, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 1086 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 697 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
555
WUUS53 KMPX 301334
SVRMPX
MNC131-301400-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0101.160630T1334Z-160630T1400Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
834 AM CDT THU JUN 30 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN RICE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 900 AM CDT
* AT 834 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FARIBAULT...
MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.
HAZARD...PING PONG BALL SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...PEOPLE AND ANIMALS OUTDOORS WILL BE INJURED. EXPECT
DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES.
* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
SOUTHEASTERN RICE COUNTY...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS:
FARIBAULT AIRPORT AND RUSKIN.
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 35 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 50 AND 62.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 4436 9337 4441 9313 4429 9304 4420 9305
4419 9305 4420 9334
TIME...MOT...LOC 1334Z 341DEG 10KT 4432 9322
HAIL...1.50IN
WIND...<50MPH
$$1 follow-up statement
993
WWUS53 KMPX 301350
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
850 AM CDT THU JUN 30 2016
MNC131-301400-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0101.000000T0000Z-160630T1400Z/
RICE MN-
850 AM CDT THU JUN 30 2016
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM CDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN RICE COUNTY...
AT 850 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER RUSKIN...OR
NEAR FARIBAULT...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.
HAZARD...GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...PEOPLE AND ANIMALS OUTDOORS WILL BE INJURED. EXPECT DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...SIDING...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
FARIBAULT AND RUSKIN.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 4430 9328 4433 9312 4429 9304 4420 9305
4419 9305 4420 9327
TIME...MOT...LOC 1350Z 341DEG 10KT 4428 9320
HAIL...1.75IN
WIND...<50MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 6:39 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Redwood | 36 min |
| Jun 30, 6:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Ramsey | 46 min |
| Jun 30, 7:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Redwood | 42 min |
| Jun 30, 7:33 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue | 57 min |
| Jun 30, 8:33 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Rice | 27 min |
| Jun 30, 10:50 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Brown | 40 min |
| Jun 30, 11:22 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Nicollet, Sibley | 38 min |
| Jun 30, 12:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Blue Earth, Steele, Waseca | 49 min |
| Jun 30, 12:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Freeborn, Steele, Waseca | 40 min |
| Jun 30, 1:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Freeborn | 31 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.