Alert archive / Minnesota / Special Weather Statements in 2016
Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Apr 24, 2016, 8:13 PM CDT for 4 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report 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
- Apr 24, 2016, 8:13 PM CDT (01:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2016, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Freeborn County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Steele County, MN, Waseca County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 8:18 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 2 S Waseca, MN | FUNNEL CLOUD SIGHTING REPORTED JUST SOUTH OF WASECA. |
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 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 866 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 388 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
568
WWUS83 KMPX 250113
SPSMPX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
813 PM CDT SUN APR 24 2016
MNZ075>077-083>085-092-093-250145-
NICOLLET-FREEBORN-RICE-WASECA-FARIBAULT-BLUE EARTH-STEELE-LE SUEUR-
813 PM CDT SUN APR 24 2016
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT STEELE...NORTHEASTERN BLUE
EARTH...EASTERN NICOLLET...SOUTHWESTERN RICE...WASECA...FREEBORN...LE
SUEUR AND EASTERN FARIBAULT COUNTIES...
AT 811 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG A LINE FROM MANKATO
TO NEW RICHLAND AND JUST WEST OF ALBERT LEA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40
MPH.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MANKATO...OWATONNA...FARIBAULT...ALBERT LEA...NORTH MANKATO...ST. PETER...
WASECA...LE SUEUR...LE CENTER...EAGLE LAKE...WELLS AND JANESVILLE.
LAT...LON 4399 9375 4417 9413 4446 9396 4446 9393
4449 9390 4420 9317 4350 9319 4350 9373
TIME...MOT...LOC 0111Z 202DEG 35KT 4389 9351
$$
ADLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 7:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Blue Earth, Martin | 23 min |
| Apr 24, 7:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Brown, Watonwan | 34 min |
| Apr 24, 7:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Faribault, Nicollet | 47 min |
| Apr 24, 8:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Rice, Steele, Waseca | 13 min |
| Apr 24, 8:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Steele | 16 min |
| Apr 24, 8:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Goodhue, Rice | 24 min |
| Apr 24, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue | 28 min |
| Apr 24, 10:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Martin, Watonwan | 40 min |
| Apr 24, 10:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Martin, Watonwan | 34 min |
| Apr 25, 8:04 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Hennepin | 41 min |
| Apr 25, 4:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Le Sueur | 33 min |
| Apr 25, 5:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Waseca | 48 min |
Nearby
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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.