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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Oct 17, 2016, 5:59 PM CDT for Barron County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 31 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
- Oct 17, 2016, 5:59 PM CDT (22:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 17, 2016, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
County Barron County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -360 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 651 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
893 WWUS83 KMPX 172259 SPSMPX SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 559 PM CDT MON OCT 17 2016 WIZ015-172330- BARRON- 559 PM CDT MON OCT 17 2016 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHERN BARRON COUNTY THROUGH 630 PM CDT... AT 558 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PRAIRIE FARM... OR 21 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RICE LAKE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH AND HALF INCH HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RICE LAKE...BARRON...CHETEK...CAMERON...PRAIRIE FARM...DALLAS... SUMNER...ARLAND...CANTON...RICE LAKE AIRPORT AND HILLSDALE. THIS INCLUDES U.S. HIGHWAY 53 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 120 AND 139. TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE. LAT...LON 4521 9209 4533 9213 4552 9154 4521 9154 TIME...MOT...LOC 2258Z 248DEG 37KT 4526 9204 $$ JPC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17, 5:31 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Faribault, Freeborn, Kandiyohi and 15 more | 5 hr |
| Oct 17, 5:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Hennepin | 30 min |
| Oct 17, 5:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Washington | 38 min |
| Oct 17, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Washington | 33 min |
| Oct 17, 2:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Rusk | 15 min |
| Oct 17, 4:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Rusk | 63 min |
| Oct 17, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn, Pepin, Pierce, Saint Croix | 52 min |
| Oct 17, 6:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Rusk | 37 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.