Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2016, 6:58 PM CDT for Carver County, Scott County, Sibley County, Minnesota. It was in force for 32 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
- May 24, 2016, 6:58 PM CDT (23:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2016, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
Counties Carver County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sibley County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:01 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:15 PM CDT | HAIL 1.25 | 6 N Henderson, MN | |
| May 24, 7:20 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 5 Wnw Belle Plaine, MN |
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, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 31 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
- 384 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 862 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
831
WUUS53 KMPX 242358
SVRMPX
MNC019-139-143-250030-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0012.160524T2358Z-160525T0030Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
658 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN CARVER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
NORTHEASTERN SIBLEY COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
SOUTHWESTERN SCOTT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 730 PM CDT
* AT 658 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GREEN ISLE...
OR 28 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HUTCHINSON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
HAZARD...HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS.
IMPACT...DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
NEW PRAGUE...BELLE PLAINE...JORDAN...GREEN ISLE...HELENA...ST BENEDICT
AND MN VALLEY STATE REC AREA.
THIS INCLUDES U.S. HIGHWAY 169 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 85 AND 102.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 4462 9406 4476 9392 4470 9353 4454 9355
4454 9390
TIME...MOT...LOC 2358Z 289DEG 27KT 4466 9390
HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...<50MPH
$$
RAH1 follow-up statement
588
WWUS53 KMPX 250016
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
716 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2016
MNC019-139-143-250030-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0012.000000T0000Z-160525T0030Z/
CARVER MN-SIBLEY MN-SCOTT MN-
716 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2016
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM CDT
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL CARVER...NORTHEASTERN SIBLEY AND SOUTHWESTERN SCOTT
COUNTIES...
AT 716 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BELLE PLAINE...
OR 31 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HUTCHINSON...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.
HAZARD...HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS.
IMPACT...DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
NEW PRAGUE...BELLE PLAINE...JORDAN...HELENA...ST BENEDICT AND MN VALLEY
STATE REC AREA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 4459 9400 4471 9392 4470 9353 4454 9355
4454 9390
TIME...MOT...LOC 0016Z 289DEG 15KT 4463 9386
HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...<50MPH
$$
RAHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 7:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Wright | 64 min |
| May 24, 3:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Kandiyohi | 26 min |
| May 24, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 23 min |
| May 24, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 26 min |
| May 24, 4:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Kandiyohi | 58 min |
| May 24, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Renville | 42 min |
| May 24, 5:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Stearns | 32 min |
| May 24, 5:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | McLeod | 27 min |
| May 24, 5:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Stearns | 36 min |
| May 24, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod | 34 min |
| May 24, 6:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Morrison | 25 min |
| May 24, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, McLeod, Sibley | 50 min |
| May 24, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Morrison | 42 min |
| May 24, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Todd | 47 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.