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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Aug 16, 2016, 5:39 PM CDT for Chippewa County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 51 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 16, 2016, 5:39 PM CDT (22:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2016, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
County Chippewa County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 408 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 979 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted.
216
WWUS83 KMPX 162239
SPSMPX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
539 PM CDT TUE AUG 16 2016
WIZ025-027-162330-
DUNN-CHIPPEWA-
539 PM CDT TUE AUG 16 2016
...AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT NORTHEASTERN DUNN AND
CHIPPEWA COUNTIES...
AT 536 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE CLUSTERED NEAR CHIPPEWA
MORAINE STATE REC AREA...OR 20 MILES NORTH OF EAU CLAIRE. STORMS
HAVE BEEN REPEATEDLY FORMING OVER THE SAME LOCATIONS.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH...HALF INCH HAIL...AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL
ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CHIPPEWA FALLS...BLOOMER...LAKE WISSOTA...CORNELL...CADOTT...
NEW AUBURN...TILDEN...SAND CREEK...JIM FALLS...
CHIPPEWA MORAINE STATE REC AREA...EAGLETON AND HOLCOMBE.
THIS INCLUDES U.S. HIGHWAY 53 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 100 AND 118.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY CAUSE
LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
LAT...LON 4492 9123 4506 9187 4517 9188 4527 9093
4503 9093
TIME...MOT...LOC 2236Z 254DEG 42KT 4516 9137
$$
SCHMIDTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 11:00 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MPX | Wright | 9 days |
| Aug 16, 2:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Todd | 52 min |
| Aug 16, 3:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Sibley | 38 min |
| Aug 16, 3:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Morrison | 53 min |
| Aug 16, 4:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Scott | 44 min |
| Aug 16, 4:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Todd | 73 min |
| Aug 16, 4:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Scott | 36 min |
| Aug 16, 4:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Lac qui Parle | 63 min |
| Aug 16, 4:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Hennepin | 61 min |
| Aug 16, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin, Ramsey | 25 min |
| Aug 16, 5:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Scott | 3 hr |
| Aug 16, 5:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Benton | 57 min |
| Aug 16, 5:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 25 min |
| Aug 16, 6:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Lac qui Parle | 52 min |
| Aug 16, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Rice | 27 min |
| Aug 16, 6:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chippewa | 62 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.