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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Twin Cities, MN

May 24, 2016Kandiyohi County, Minnesota

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 archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2016-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 384 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2016-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 6 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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
 
$$

LS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 7:26 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXWright64 min
May 24, 3:49 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXKandiyohi26 min
May 24, 3:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXKandiyohi23 min
May 24, 4:32 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXKandiyohi58 min
May 24, 4:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRenville42 min
May 24, 5:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXStearns32 min
May 24, 5:18 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXMcLeod27 min
May 24, 5:24 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXStearns36 min
May 24, 5:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMcLeod34 min
May 24, 6:05 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXMorrison25 min
May 24, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXCarver, McLeod, Sibley50 min
May 24, 6:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBenton, Morrison42 min
May 24, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXTodd47 min
May 24, 6:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXCarver, Scott, Sibley32 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.