Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2016, 4:02 PM CDT for Lac qui Parle County, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. It was in force for 28 min. 2 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
- Jun 17, 2016, 4:02 PM CDT (21:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2016, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
Counties Lac qui Parle County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 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, 4:05 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 6 Sw Dawson, MN | . |
| Jun 17, 4:15 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Dawson, 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, 9.0 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted.
201 WUUS53 KMPX 172102 SVRMPX MNC073-173-172130- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0071.160617T2102Z-160617T2130Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 402 PM CDT FRI JUN 17 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... SOUTHERN LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 430 PM CDT * AT 400 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER PROVIDENCE... OR 21 MILES WEST OF MONTEVIDEO...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. OTHER STORMS WERE 5 TO 10 MILES NORTH OF CANBY. HAZARD...HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL. SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. IMPACT...DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. * THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... DAWSON AROUND 410 PM CDT. OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE FLORIDA CREEK WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA AND PROVIDENCE. THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS... U.S. HIGHWAY 212 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 16 AND 25. U.S. HIGHWAY 75 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 95 AND 103. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. && LAT...LON 4475 9633 4490 9635 4497 9594 4478 9592 TIME...MOT...LOC 2100Z 260DEG 24KT 4487 9613 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, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle | 35 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, 4:10 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.