Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2016, 6:15 PM CDT for Wright County, Minnesota. It was in force for 22 min. 3 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 23, 2016, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2016, 6:37 PM CDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Wright County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 6:15 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 1 Wnw Cokato, MN | GOLF COURSE VARIED SIZE. |
| May 23, 6:19 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 55 | Cokato, MN | UNKNOWN EQUIPMENT. |
| May 23, 6:19 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Cokato, MN | IMAGE VIA SOCIAL MEDIA. |
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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 1408 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
109
WUUS53 KMPX 232315
SVRMPX
MNC171-240000-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0004.160523T2315Z-160524T0000Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
615 PM CDT MON MAY 23 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN WRIGHT COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 700 PM CDT
* AT 614 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER COKATO...OR 15
MILES NORTHEAST OF HUTCHINSON...MOVING NORTHEAST 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.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BUFFALO...MONTICELLO...MONTROSE...COKATO...MAPLE LAKE...HOWARD LAKE...
WAVERLY...SMITH LAKE...BUFFALO AIRPORT AND RASSAT.
THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS...
INTERSTATE 94 IN MINNESOTA NEAR MILE MARKER 193.
U.S. HIGHWAY 12 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 116 AND 137.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 4506 9377 4498 9407 4500 9417 4506 9422
4513 9426 4531 9380 4531 9379
TIME...MOT...LOC 2314Z 241DEG 27KT 4507 9417
HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
JRB2 follow-up statements
661
WWUS53 KMPX 232327
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
627 PM CDT MON MAY 23 2016
MNC171-240000-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0004.000000T0000Z-160524T0000Z/
WRIGHT MN-
627 PM CDT MON MAY 23 2016
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT
FOR SOUTHWESTERN WRIGHT COUNTY...
AT 627 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR RASSAT...OR 10
MILES SOUTHWEST OF BUFFALO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE TO
ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BUFFALO...MONTICELLO...MONTROSE...MAPLE LAKE...HOWARD LAKE...WAVERLY...
BUFFALO AIRPORT AND RASSAT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 4506 9377 4498 9407 4500 9417 4510 9410
4520 9409 4531 9380 4531 9379
TIME...MOT...LOC 2327Z 241DEG 27KT 4512 9405
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
JRB927
WWUS53 KMPX 232337
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
637 PM CDT MON MAY 23 2016
MNC171-232346-
/O.CAN.KMPX.SV.W.0004.000000T0000Z-160524T0000Z/
WRIGHT MN-
637 PM CDT MON MAY 23 2016
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN WRIGHT COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSE AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS
AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
LAT...LON 4506 9377 4498 9407 4500 9417 4510 9410
4520 9409 4531 9380 4531 9379
TIME...MOT...LOC 2333Z 241DEG 27KT 4515 9396
$$
JRBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 4:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Renville | 35 min |
| May 23, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Renville | 28 min |
| May 23, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Meeker, Wright | 27 min |
| May 23, 6:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Wright | 36 min |
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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.