Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 236, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 21, 2016, 12:06 AM CDT for Steele County, Waseca County, Minnesota. It was in force for 24 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
- Sep 21, 2016, 12:06 AM CDT (05:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 21, 2016, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Steele County, MN, Waseca County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 20, 9:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 1882 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 662 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted.
814
WUUS53 KMPX 210506
SVRMPX
MNC147-161-210530-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0236.160921T0506Z-160921T0530Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1206 AM CDT WED SEP 21 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN STEELE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
NORTHERN WASECA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 1230 AM CDT
* AT 1205 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WASECA
AIRPORT...OR 19 MILES EAST OF MANKATO...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
WASECA AROUND 1215 AM CDT.
OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE
LEMOND... ALMA CITY...DEERFIELD AND WASECA AIRPORT.
THIS INCLUDES U.S. HIGHWAY 14 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 145 AND 167.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 4403 9376 4416 9375 4417 9334 4396 9337
TIME...MOT...LOC 0505Z 278DEG 27KT 4407 9362
HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
SPD1 follow-up statement
032
WWUS53 KMPX 210527
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1227 AM CDT WED SEP 21 2016
MNC147-161-210537-
/O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0236.000000T0000Z-160921T0530Z/
STEELE MN-WASECA MN-
1227 AM CDT WED SEP 21 2016
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN STEELE AND
NORTHERN WASECA COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 1230 AM CDT...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. HOWEVER SMALL HAIL
IS STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM CDT FOR
SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA.
LAT...LON 4403 9376 4416 9375 4417 9334 4396 9337
TIME...MOT...LOC 0526Z 278DEG 27KT 4407 9362
$$
SPDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 20, 9:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Nicollet | 26 min |
| Sep 20, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Waseca | 37 min |
| Sep 20, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Le Sueur, Nicollet, Sibley | 33 min |
| Sep 20, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Waseca | 41 min |
| Sep 20, 11:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Dakota | 25 min |
| Sep 20, 11:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Ramsey | 23 min |
| Sep 20, 11:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Steele, Waseca | 40 min |
| Sep 20, 11:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Steele, Waseca | 3 hr |
| Sep 21, 12:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Steele, Waseca | 35 min |
| Sep 21, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Steele | 30 min |
| Sep 21, 1:58 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Goodhue | 62 min |
| Sep 21, 10:54 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Freeborn | 21 min |
| Sep 21, 2:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Dakota | 43 min |
| Sep 21, 4:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Ramsey | 26 min |
| Sep 21, 4:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Washington | 36 min |
| Sep 21, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Washington | 33 min |
| Sep 21, 5:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Freeborn | 42 min |
| Sep 21, 6:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Wright | 45 min |
| Sep 21, 6:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Hennepin | 40 min |
| Sep 21, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 42 min |
| Sep 21, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker, Stearns | 42 min |
| Sep 21, 6:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin, Ramsey, Washington | 9 hr |
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.