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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 8, 2016Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Jun 8, 2016, 3:12 PM CDT for Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. It was in force for 63 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
Jun 8, 2016, 3:12 PM CDT (20:12 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 2016, 4:15 PM CDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN

County Yellow Medicine County, MN

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 8, 4:00 PM CDTHAIL 0.88Belview, 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 158 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 2016-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2016-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 6 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1717 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

707 
WWUS83 KMPX 082012
SPSMPX

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
312 PM CDT WED JUN 8 2016

MNZ064-065-073-082115-
RENVILLE-REDWOOD-YELLOW MEDICINE-
312 PM CDT WED JUN 8 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN YELLOW MEDICINE...
NORTHWESTERN REDWOOD AND WEST CENTRAL RENVILLE COUNTIES...

AT 311 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HANLEY FALLS...
OR 17 MILES SOUTH OF MONTEVIDEO...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WOOD LAKE...HANLEY FALLS...ECHO...BELVIEW...HAZEL RUN AND GRANITE FALLS
AIRPORT.

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 4478 9571 4470 9523 4449 9533 4459 9561
      4463 9561 4463 9572 4465 9577
TIME...MOT...LOC 2011Z 288DEG 21KT 4470 9569 

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SPD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 4:50 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXRedwood40 min
Jun 8, 6:49 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXWatonwan41 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.