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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2016, 3:23 AM CDT for Mille Lacs County, Minnesota. It was in force for 52 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
- Aug 4, 2016, 3:23 AM CDT (08:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2016, 4:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
County Mille Lacs County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 1240 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1342 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted.
472
WWUS83 KMPX 040823
SPSMPX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
323 AM CDT THU AUG 4 2016
MNZ043-044-040915-
MILLE LACS-MORRISON-
323 AM CDT THU AUG 4 2016
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH 50 TO 55 MPH WIND GUSTS WILL AFFECT
SOUTHEASTERN MORRISON AND MILLE LACS COUNTIES...
AT 323 AM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER PIERZ...OR 14
MILES EAST OF LITTLE FALLS...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MILLE LACS LAKE...ONAMIA...ISLE...WAHKON...VINELAND...HARDING...
HILLMAN...LAKE MILLE LACS AND BAYVIEW.
THIS INCLUDES U.S. HIGHWAY 169 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 198 AND 229.
LAT...LON 4598 9343 4598 9352 4584 9353 4586 9403
4616 9405 4616 9381 4624 9381 4624 9343
TIME...MOT...LOC 0823Z 268DEG 49KT 4599 9406
$$
JRBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 1:37 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Douglas, Pope, Stevens | 53 min |
| Aug 4, 2:08 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Todd | 67 min |
| Aug 4, 2:33 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Morrison | 57 min |
| Aug 4, 2:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison, Todd | 50 min |
| Aug 4, 3:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kanabec, Mille Lacs | 44 min |
| Aug 4, 5:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 42 min |
| Aug 4, 5:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Wright | 41 min |
| Aug 4, 5:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 56 min |
| Aug 4, 6:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin, Wright | 28 min |
| Aug 4, 6:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Redwood, Renville, Yellow Medicine | 50 min |
| Aug 4, 6:52 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Carver, Hennepin, Ramsey, Washington | 53 min |
| Aug 4, 7:31 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Le Sueur, Ramsey, Rice and 2 more | 59 min |
| Aug 4, 7:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Hennepin, Wright | 26 min |
| Aug 4, 8:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Anoka | 27 min |
| Aug 4, 8:35 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chisago | 25 min |
| Aug 4, 12:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Steele | 22 min |
| Aug 4, 9:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Pierce | 29 min |
| Aug 4, 9:22 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Pepin | 23 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.