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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Aug 18, 2016, 3:02 PM CDT for Rice County, Minnesota. 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
- Aug 18, 2016, 3:02 PM CDT (20:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2016, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
County Rice County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1165 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
808 WWUS83 KMPX 182002 SPSMPX SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 302 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2016 MNZ070-076-077-182100- DAKOTA-RICE-LE SUEUR- 302 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2016 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN DAKOTA...NORTHERN RICE AND NORTHEASTERN LE SUEUR COUNTIES... AT 302 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER HEIDELBERG...OR 19 MILES NORTHWEST OF FARIBAULT...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH AND DIME SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... NORTHFIELD...NEW PRAGUE...LONSDALE...MONTGOMERY...WEBSTER...DUNDAS... NERSTRAND...BRIDGEWATER...HEIDELBERG AND VESELI. THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 35 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 61 AND 74. TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. 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 4439 9370 4455 9369 4454 9304 4432 9304 TIME...MOT...LOC 2002Z 275DEG 28KT 4448 9359 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 10:25 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MPX | Hennepin, Wright | 7 days |
| Aug 18, 1:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Redwood | 57 min |
| Aug 18, 1:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood | 47 min |
| Aug 18, 1:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Redwood | 34 min |
| Aug 18, 2:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Renville | 39 min |
| Aug 18, 2:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Nicollet, Redwood | 57 min |
| Aug 18, 2:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Brown | 49 min |
| Aug 18, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Nicollet | 61 min |
| Aug 18, 3:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Steele, Waseca | 64 min |
| Aug 18, 3:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Freeborn | 58 min |
| Aug 18, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn, Steele, Waseca | 63 min |
| Aug 18, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Steele, Waseca | 36 min |
| Aug 18, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 30 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.