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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Twin Cities, MN

May 24, 2016McLeod County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2016, 5:41 PM CDT for McLeod County, Minnesota. It was in force for 34 min. 3 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: May 24, 2016, 5:41 PM CDT (22:41 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2016, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County McLeod County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:42 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 24, 5:41 PM CDT	HAIL 1	7 Wsw Hutchinson, MN	TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED UP TO 1 INCH HAIL WEST OF HUTCHINSON
May 24, 5:51 PM CDT	HAIL 1	5 Sse Cedar Mills, MN	REPORTED VIA SOCIAL MEDIA
May 24, 6:00 PM CDT	HAIL 1	4 N Brownton, MN

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

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 60 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: 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.

517 
WUUS53 KMPX 242241
SVRMPX
MNC085-242315-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0008.160524T2241Z-160524T2315Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
541 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN MCLEOD COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA...

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 541 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LAKESIDE...OR
  NEAR HUTCHINSON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

  HAZARD...QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS. 

  IMPACT...DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  HUTCHINSON...BROWNTON...SUMTER...BISCAY...LAKE MARION REGIONAL PARK AND
  HUTCHINSON AIRPORT.

THIS INCLUDES U.S. HIGHWAY 212 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 108 AND 115.
 
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 4475 9450 4493 9450 4489 9414 4471 9424
      4470 9426
TIME...MOT...LOC 2241Z 283DEG 25KT 4483 9447 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...<50MPH
 
$$

RAH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 7:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Wright	64 min
May 24, 3:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Kandiyohi	26 min
May 24, 3:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi	23 min
May 24, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi	26 min
May 24, 4:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Kandiyohi	58 min
May 24, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Renville	42 min
May 24, 5:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Stearns	32 min
May 24, 5:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	McLeod	27 min
May 24, 5:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Stearns	36 min
May 24, 6:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Morrison	25 min
May 24, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver, McLeod, Sibley	50 min
May 24, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Benton, Morrison	42 min
May 24, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Todd	47 min
May 24, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver, Scott, Sibley	32 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.