Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2016, 4:30 PM CDT for Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. It was in force for 45 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
- Jun 17, 2016, 4:30 PM CDT (21:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2016, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 179 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.
383
WUUS53 KMPX 172130
SVRMPX
MNC173-172215-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0074.160617T2130Z-160617T2215Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
430 PM CDT FRI JUN 17 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
WESTERN YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 515 PM CDT
* AT 430 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER CANBY...OR 21
MILES EAST OF CLEAR LAKE...MOVING EAST AT 35 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.
* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
PORTER AROUND 435 PM CDT.
CLARKFIELD AROUND 505 PM CDT.
OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE SPELLMAN
LAKE...ST. LEO...SPRING CREEK AND BURR.
THIS INCLUDES U.S. HIGHWAY 59 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 87 AND 98.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO
FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 4478 9636 4481 9576 4463 9574 4463 9632
4464 9636
TIME...MOT...LOC 2130Z 266DEG 31KT 4470 9625
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
TDK1 follow-up statement
968
WWUS53 KMPX 172211
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
511 PM CDT FRI JUN 17 2016
MNC173-172221-
/O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0074.000000T0000Z-160617T2215Z/
YELLOW MEDICINE MN-
511 PM CDT FRI JUN 17 2016
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WESTERN YELLOW MEDICINE
COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 515 PM CDT...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSE AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY.
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. HOWEVER GUSTY
WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. SOME
AREAS MAY PICK A QUICK TWO OR THREE INCHES OF RAIN.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR
WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA.
LAT...LON 4478 9636 4481 9576 4463 9574 4463 9632
4464 9636
TIME...MOT...LOC 2209Z 266DEG 31KT 4470 9625
$$
TDKThe 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, 4:02 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, 4:51 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.