Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2016, 4:19 PM CDT for Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. It was in force for 26 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
- May 24, 2016, 4:19 PM CDT (21:19 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2016, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Kandiyohi County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 106 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.
298
WUUS53 KMPX 242119
SVRMPX
MNC067-242145-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0006.160524T2119Z-160524T2145Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
419 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN KANDIYOHI COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 445 PM CDT
* AT 418 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER LAKE LILLIAN...
OR 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WILLMAR...MOVING EAST AT 25 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...
LAKE LILLIAN...BLOMKEST...THORPE AND SVEA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 4501 9502 4506 9476 4489 9476 4489 9502
4490 9503
TIME...MOT...LOC 2118Z 258DEG 22KT 4494 9488
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
LSThe 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, 4:32 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 |
| May 24, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Scott, Sibley | 32 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.