Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2017
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2017, 10:17 PM CDT for Dodge County, Minnesota. It was in force for 23 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 2017, 10:17 PM CDT (03:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2017, 10:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Dodge County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:20 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 10:22 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 6 Wnw West Concord, MN | DIME TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL. |
| May 15, 10:26 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 2 Nw West Concord, MN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 1282 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
522 WUUS53 KARX 160317 SVRARX MNC039-160415- /O.NEW.KARX.SV.W.0049.170516T0317Z-170516T0415Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Severe Thunderstorm Warning National Weather Service La Crosse WI 1017 PM CDT MON MAY 15 2017 The National Weather Service in La Crosse has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Northern Dodge County in southeastern Minnesota... * Until 1115 PM CDT * At 1016 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Owatonna, moving northeast at 50 mph. HAZARD...Quarter size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected. * This severe thunderstorm will be near... Claremont around 1025 PM CDT. West Concord around 1030 PM CDT. Mantorville around 1035 PM CDT. Other locations impacted by this severe thunderstorm include Wasioja, Concord, Eden, County Roads 20 And 5 and Highway 57 And 570th Street. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. && LAT...LON 4420 9304 4419 9268 4407 9268 4401 9305 TIME...MOT...LOC 0316Z 247DEG 42KT 4410 9312 HAIL...1.00IN WIND...<50MPH $$ JSB
4 follow-up statements
277 WWUS53 KARX 160322 SVSARX Severe Weather Statement National Weather Service La Crosse WI 1022 PM CDT MON MAY 15 2017 MNC039-160415- /O.CON.KARX.SV.W.0049.000000T0000Z-170516T0415Z/ Dodge MN- 1022 PM CDT MON MAY 15 2017 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1115 PM CDT FOR NORTHERN DODGE COUNTY... At 1022 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near West Concord, or 10 miles northeast of Owatonna, moving northeast at 50 mph. HAZARD...Quarter size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected. This severe storm will be near... West Concord around 1030 PM CDT. Other locations impacted by this severe thunderstorm include Concord, County Roads 20 And 5, County Roads 1 And 24, Berne and Rice Lake State Park. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. && LAT...LON 4420 9304 4419 9268 4405 9305 TIME...MOT...LOC 0322Z 238DEG 44KT 4416 9303 HAIL...1.00IN WIND...<50MPH $$ JSB
964 WWUS53 KARX 160330 SVSARX Severe Weather Statement National Weather Service La Crosse WI 1030 PM CDT MON MAY 15 2017 MNC039-160415- /O.CON.KARX.SV.W.0049.000000T0000Z-170516T0415Z/ Dodge MN- 1030 PM CDT MON MAY 15 2017 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1115 PM CDT FOR NORTHERN DODGE COUNTY... At 1030 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near West Concord, or 11 miles northwest of Mantorville, moving northeast at 50 mph. HAZARD...Quarter size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. && LAT...LON 4420 9304 4419 9268 4405 9305 TIME...MOT...LOC 0330Z 247DEG 42KT 4420 9291 HAIL...1.00IN WIND...<50MPH $$ JSB
970 WWUS53 KARX 160336 SVSARX Severe Weather Statement National Weather Service La Crosse WI 1036 PM CDT MON MAY 15 2017 MNC039-160415- /O.CON.KARX.SV.W.0049.000000T0000Z-170516T0415Z/ Dodge MN- 1036 PM CDT MON MAY 15 2017 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1115 PM CDT FOR NORTHERN DODGE COUNTY... At 1035 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Wanamingo, or 11 miles north of Mantorville, moving northeast at 50 mph. HAZARD...Quarter size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. && LAT...LON 4420 9304 4419 9268 4405 9305 TIME...MOT...LOC 0335Z 247DEG 42KT 4423 9282 HAIL...1.00IN WIND...<50MPH $$ JSB
960
WWUS53 KARX 160340
SVSARX
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service La Crosse WI
1040 PM CDT MON MAY 15 2017
MNC039-160350-
/O.CAN.KARX.SV.W.0049.000000T0000Z-170516T0415Z/
Dodge MN-
1040 PM CDT MON MAY 15 2017
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN DODGE COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
The storm which prompted the warning has moved out of the area.
Therefore the warning has been cancelled.
A severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect until 300 AM CDT for
southeast Minnesota.
LAT...LON 4420 9304 4419 9268 4405 9305
TIME...MOT...LOC 0336Z 247DEG 42KT 4425 9274
$$
JSBThe office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Fillmore, Houston, Winona | 67 min |
| May 15, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona | 41 min |
| May 15, 11:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ARX | Houston | 44 min |
| May 15, 11:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ARX | Winona | 56 min |
| May 15, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Dodge | 33 min |
| May 15, 11:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ARX | Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona | 3 hr |
| May 16, 12:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona | 7 hr |
| May 16, 12:18 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ARX | Olmsted, Winona | 22 hr |
| May 16, 6:58 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ARX | Houston, Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona | 9 hr |
| May 16, 3:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 13 hr |
| May 16, 3:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ARX | Wabasha | 51 min |
| May 16, 4:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ARX | Olmsted, Wabasha | 58 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.