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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Jul 27, 2016, 3:17 PM CDT for Saint Croix County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 58 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
- Jul 27, 2016, 3:17 PM CDT (20:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2016, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
County Saint Croix County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 889 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1057 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
673 WWUS83 KMPX 272017 SPSMPX SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 317 PM CDT WED JUL 27 2016 WIZ023-272115- ST. CROIX- 317 PM CDT WED JUL 27 2016 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN ST. CROIX COUNTY... AT 317 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LAKE ST CROIX BEACH...OR NEAR RIVER FALLS...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... RIVER FALLS AROUND 330 PM CDT. ROBERTS AROUND 345 PM CDT. HAMMOND AROUND 400 PM CDT. BALDWIN AROUND 410 PM CDT. THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 94 IN WISCONSIN BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 6 AND 21. THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO STATIONS AND AVAILABLE TELEVISION STATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 4486 9271 4492 9275 4508 9243 4487 9230 TIME...MOT...LOC 2017Z 250DEG 15KT 4491 9269 $$ SPD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 4:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Stevens, Swift | 42 min |
| Jul 27, 4:57 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chippewa, Swift | 48 min |
| Jul 27, 10:37 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | McLeod | 38 min |
| Jul 27, 11:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, McLeod, Wright | 32 min |
| Jul 27, 12:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Hennepin, Wright | 31 min |
| Jul 27, 12:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Isanti | 51 min |
| Jul 27, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 33 min |
| Jul 27, 1:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Sherburne | 25 min |
| Jul 27, 1:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chisago, Isanti | 61 min |
| Jul 27, 1:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Anoka, Ramsey, Washington | 70 min |
| Jul 27, 3:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Rice | 36 min |
| Jul 27, 3:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Ramsey, Washington | 63 min |
| Jul 27, 2:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Polk | 65 min |
| Jul 27, 2:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Barron, Polk | 23 min |
| Jul 27, 2:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Saint Croix | 29 min |
| Jul 27, 3:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Barron | 36 min |
| Jul 27, 4:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chippewa | 39 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.