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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Sep 22, 2016, 2:21 AM CDT for Le Sueur County, Rice County, Minnesota. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 22, 2016, 2:21 AM CDT (07:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 22, 2016, 5:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Le Sueur County, MN, Rice County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 144 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -361 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 641 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 428 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 596 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 11.6
The text
As transmitted.
175
WWUS83 KMPX 220721
SPSMPX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
221 AM CDT THU SEP 22 2016
MNZ075>077-083-221015-
NICOLLET-RICE-BLUE EARTH-LE SUEUR-
221 AM CDT THU SEP 22 2016
...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND LOCALIZED MINOR FLOODING EXPECTED...
VERY HEAVY RAIN WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALIZED FLOODING WILL AFFECT
THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
NICOLLET...RICE...BLUE EARTH...LE SUEUR...
AT 217 AM CDT...VERY HEAVY RAIN WITH LOCALIZED FLOODING WAS
OCCURRING IN MANKATO AND PORTIONS OF LE SUEUR AND RICE COUNTIES. 2
TO 4 INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED IN THESE AREAS AND MINOR
FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MANKATO...FARIBAULT...NORTHFIELD...NORTH MANKATO...ST. PETER...
LONSDALE...MONTGOMERY...LE CENTER...EAGLE LAKE...WATERVILLE...
DUNDAS AND MADISON LAKE.
THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS...
INTERSTATE 35 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 57 AND 70.
U.S. HIGHWAY 14 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 124 AND 141.
U.S. HIGHWAY 169 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 49 AND 67.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
LAT...LON 4407 9408 4429 9414 4451 9334 4436 9305
4419 9365 4420 9376 4416 9377
TIME...MOT...LOC 0717Z 180DEG 0KT 4423 9393
$$
FRANKSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin, Wright | 30 min |
| Sep 21, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin, Ramsey | 50 min |
| Sep 21, 8:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Hennepin, Ramsey | 3 hr |
| Sep 21, 10:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Goodhue, Rice, Steele, Waseca | 7 hr |
| Sep 21, 11:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin | 5 hr |
| Sep 21, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 39 min |
| Sep 22, 12:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Freeborn, Steele, Waseca | 4 hr |
| Sep 22, 2:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Blue Earth | 3 hr |
| Sep 22, 3:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Dakota, Faribault, Freeborn, Goodhue and 9 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 22, 4:48 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Freeborn, Steele, Waseca | 24 hr |
| Sep 22, 4:57 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Goodhue, Le Sueur, Rice, Steele, Waseca | 24 hr |
| Sep 22, 4:57 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 70 hr |
| Sep 22, 6:51 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Watonwan | 3 hr |
| Sep 22, 10:57 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 43 hr |
| Sep 21, 7:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Eau Claire | 4 hr |
| Sep 21, 7:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Dunn, Saint Croix | 4 hr |
| Sep 21, 9:03 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MPX | Eau Claire | 4 days |
| Sep 22, 5:33 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire | 24 hr |
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.