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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 17, 2016Brown County, Watonwan County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2016, 5:47 PM CDT for Brown County, Watonwan County, Minnesota. It was in force for 43 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, 5:47 PM CDT (22:47 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2016, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Brown County, MN, Watonwan County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:49 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 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

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 131 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1540 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

864 
WUUS53 KMPX 172247
SVRMPX
MNC015-165-172330-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0078.160617T2247Z-160617T2330Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN WATONWAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
  SOUTH CENTRAL BROWN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 547 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SPRINGFIELD...
  OR 21 MILES WEST OF NEW ULM...MOVING SOUTH 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. 

* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  COMFREY AROUND 600 PM CDT. 

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE SVEADAHL
AND DARFUR.

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 4399 9486 4411 9486 4411 9494 4413 9494
      4414 9471 4402 9464
TIME...MOT...LOC 2247Z 340DEG 20KT 4420 9487 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

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, 4:02 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, 5:57 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.