Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2016, 6:21 PM CDT for Blue Earth County, Brown County, Nicollet County, Minnesota. It was in force for 24 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, 6:21 PM CDT (23:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2016, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Nicollet County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 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, 6:25 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 Wsw New Ulm, MN | GARAGE BLOWN DOWN. |
| Jun 17, 6:30 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | New Ulm, MN | NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ACROSS TOWN. . |
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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted.
774
WUUS53 KMPX 172321
SVRMPX
MNC013-015-103-172345-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0080.160617T2321Z-160617T2345Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
621 PM CDT FRI JUN 17 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN BROWN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
NORTHWESTERN BLUE EARTH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
CENTRAL NICOLLET COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 645 PM CDT
* AT 620 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER NEW ULM...
MOVING EAST AT 55 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...
COURTLAND AROUND 630 PM CDT.
NICOLLET AROUND 635 PM CDT.
OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE NEW ULM
AIRPORT...OSHAWA AND SEARLES.
THIS INCLUDES U.S. HIGHWAY 14 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 97 AND 124.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 4418 9459 4434 9459 4440 9410 4421 9406
TIME...MOT...LOC 2320Z 262DEG 47KT 4428 9449
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
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, 4:30 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 |
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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.