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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN

May 28, 2016Faribault County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at May 28, 2016, 1:49 PM CDT for Faribault County, Minnesota. It was in force for 41 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 28, 2016, 1:49 PM CDT (18:49 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 2016, 2:30 PM CDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN

County Faribault County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 135 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2016-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2016-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -16 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
870 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

631 
WWUS83 KMPX 281849
SPSMPX

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
149 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 2016

MNZ092-281930-
FARIBAULT-
149 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN FARIBAULT COUNTY...

AT 149 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER RAKE...OR 20
MILES NORTHWEST OF FOREST CITY...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WELLS...BRICELYN...FROST...KIESTER...BRUSH CREEK...WALTERS AND BARODA. 
 
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

LAT...LON 4375 9396 4374 9365 4366 9364 4350 9369
      4350 9404
TIME...MOT...LOC 1849Z 201DEG 25KT 4347 9392 

$$

ADL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 12:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXBlue Earth39 min
May 28, 2:25 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXMartin50 min
May 28, 2:54 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXDakota21 min
May 28, 3:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXDakota33 min
May 28, 4:32 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXPierce28 min
May 28, 4:51 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXPierce24 min
May 28, 5:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXDunn45 min
May 28, 5:52 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXBarron38 min
May 28, 6:01 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXEau Claire29 min
May 28, 6:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXRusk52 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.