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 May 25, 2016, 7:37 AM CDT for Brown County, Minnesota. It was in force for 38 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
- May 25, 2016, 7:37 AM CDT (12:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2016, 8:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
County Brown County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 452 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1396 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted.
875
WWUS83 KMPX 251237
SPSMPX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
737 AM CDT WED MAY 25 2016
MNZ074-075-251315-
BROWN-NICOLLET-
737 AM CDT WED MAY 25 2016
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL BROWN AND NORTHWESTERN
NICOLLET COUNTIES...
AT 737 AM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SLEEPY EYE...OR
15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEW ULM...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH AND NICKEL SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
NEW ULM...SLEEPY EYE...LAFAYETTE...EVAN...COBDEN...ESSIG AND ST GEORGE.
THIS INCLUDES U.S. HIGHWAY 14 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 83 AND 100.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY CAUSE
LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
LAT...LON 4415 9488 4446 9480 4445 9438 4411 9470
4411 9474
TIME...MOT...LOC 1237Z 205DEG 33KT 4421 9476
$$
JRBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Scott, Sibley | 45 min |
| May 25, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Nicollet, Renville, Sibley | 47 min |
| May 25, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope, Stearns, Todd | 44 min |
| May 25, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Stearns, Todd | 45 min |
| May 25, 3:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Meeker | 41 min |
| May 25, 3:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Todd | 38 min |
| May 25, 3:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Sibley | 50 min |
| May 25, 4:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Todd | 46 min |
| May 25, 5:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Morrison | 59 min |
| May 25, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison, Todd | 61 min |
| May 25, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Morrison | 35 min |
| May 25, 6:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Morrison | 44 min |
| May 25, 2:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Barron, Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire, Rusk | 59 min |
| May 25, 4:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Eau Claire | 60 min |
| May 25, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Eau Claire | 24 min |
| May 25, 4:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chippewa, Eau Claire | 53 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.