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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 17, 2016Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2016, 3:25 PM CDT for Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota. It was in force for 35 min. 1 report 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: Jun 17, 2016, 3:25 PM CDT (20:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2016, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County Lac qui Parle County, MN

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 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
Jun 17, 3:34 PM CDT	HAIL 1	6 Ssw Madison, MN	.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 17, 3:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 176 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2757 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -269 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1253 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 284 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 292 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

130 
WUUS53 KMPX 172025
SVRMPX
MNC073-172100-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0068.160617T2025Z-160617T2100Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
325 PM CDT FRI JUN 17 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 324 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER MADISON...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

  HAZARD...HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. 

* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
  CENTRAL LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS:
  CERRO GORDO AND MADISON.

THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS...
 U.S. HIGHWAY 212 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 9 AND 15.
 U.S. HIGHWAY 75 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 101 AND 112.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 4487 9622 4498 9632 4513 9611 4504 9599
TIME...MOT...LOC 2024Z 231DEG 26KT 4498 9621 

HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...<50MPH
 
$$

TDK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 10:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Douglas	56 min
Jun 17, 10:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Todd	48 min
Jun 17, 11:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Todd	47 min
Jun 17, 11:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Todd	35 min
Jun 17, 11:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Pope	46 min
Jun 17, 12:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Todd	30 min
Jun 17, 12:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Todd	42 min
Jun 17, 12:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Stearns	43 min
Jun 17, 1:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Stearns	48 min
Jun 17, 1:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Stearns	65 min
Jun 17, 1:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Douglas, Todd	53 min
Jun 17, 1:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi, Meeker	40 min
Jun 17, 2:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Stearns	26 min
Jun 17, 2:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Morrison, Todd	48 min
Jun 17, 2:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Meeker	68 min
Jun 17, 2:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi	52 min
Jun 17, 3:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	McLeod	23 min
Jun 17, 3:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Benton, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Stearns, Todd	55 min
Jun 17, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Renville	43 min
Jun 17, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Renville	31 min
Jun 17, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine	28 min
Jun 17, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Renville	35 min
Jun 17, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Renville, Sibley	46 min
Jun 17, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Yellow Medicine	45 min
Jun 17, 4:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Chippewa	69 min
Jun 17, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Redwood, Renville	37 min
Jun 17, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Nicollet, Sibley	37 min
Jun 17, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Brown, Redwood	35 min
Jun 17, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Brown, Watonwan	43 min
Jun 17, 5:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Brown	63 min
Jun 17, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Brown, Watonwan	26 min
Jun 17, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Brown, Nicollet	24 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.