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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Oct 25, 2016, 7:06 PM CDT for Martin County, Minnesota. It was in force for 24 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 25, 2016, 7:06 PM CDT (00:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 2016, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
County Martin County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 739 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Twin Cities, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Oct 25, 3:23 PM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 25, 3:23 PM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 25, 1:12 PM CDT, 5 hours 54 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 112 PM CDT TUE OCT 25 2016 MNZ064>070-073>078-082>085-091>093-261815- YELLOW MEDICINE-RENVILLE-MCLEOD-SIBLEY-CARVER-SCOTT-DAKOTA- REDWOOD-BROWN-NICOLLET-LE SUEUR-RICE-GOODHUE-WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH- WASECA-STEELE-MARTIN-FARIBAULT-FREEBORN- 112 PM CDT TUE OCT 25 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA...EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA...SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF MN. THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. MNZ041>045-047>063-WIZ014>016-023>028-261815- DOUGLAS-TODD-MORRISON-MILLE LACS-KANABEC-STEVENS-POPE-STEARNS- BENTON-SHERBURNE-ISANTI-CHISAGO-LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA- KANDIYOHI-MEEKER-WRIGHT-HENNEPIN-ANOKA-RAMSEY-WASHINGTON-POLK- BARRON-RUSK-ST. CROIX-PIERCE-DUNN-PEPIN-EAU CLAIRE- 112 PM CDT TUE OCT 25 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA...EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... NORTHWEST WISCONSIN AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. JRB
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 25, 7:06 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 706 PM CDT TUE OCT 25 2016 MNZ091-260030- MARTIN- 706 PM CDT TUE OCT 25 2016 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN MARTIN COUNTY... AT 706 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ALPHA...OR NEAR JACKSON IN JACKSON COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. DIME SIZE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... SHERBURN AROUND 725 PM CDT. OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE DUNNELL. THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 90 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 81 AND 91. 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 4370 9486 4377 9479 4361 9458 4354 9485 TIME...MOT...LOC 0006Z 234DEG 28KT 4358 9489 BORGHOFF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 8:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Martin | 40 min |
| Oct 26, 12:27 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn, Martin | 3 hr |
| Oct 26, 3:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn, Martin | 3 hr |
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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.