Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2017
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 2017, 6:31 PM CST for Goodhue County, Minnesota. It was in force for 29 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
- Mar 6, 2017, 6:31 PM CST (00:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 2017, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Goodhue County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 2:43 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 923 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 993 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 432 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 528 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.2
- Supercell composite
- 10.3
The text
As transmitted.
596
WUUS53 KMPX 070031
SVRMPX
MNC049-070100-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0012.170307T0031Z-170307T0100Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
631 PM CST MON MAR 6 2017
The National Weather Service in The Twin Cities has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southeastern Goodhue County in southeastern Minnesota...
* Until 700 PM CST
* At 631 PM CST, a severe thunderstorm was located over Mazeppa, or
15 miles northeast of Mantorville, moving northeast at 70 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* This severe thunderstorm will be near,
Frontenac around 650 PM CST.
Other locations impacted by this severe thunderstorm include
Frontenac State Park, Bellechester, Central Point and Wacouta.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
A tornado watch remains in effect until 1000 PM CST for southeastern
Minnesota...and west central Wisconsin.
LAT...LON 4424 9278 4456 9242 4456 9234 4454 9231
4450 9230 4446 9224 4445 9243 4437 9243
4436 9255 4420 9256 4420 9272
TIME...MOT...LOC 0031Z 221DEG 62KT 4426 9260
TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$1 follow-up statement
932
WWUS53 KMPX 070058
SVSMPX
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
658 PM CST MON MAR 6 2017
MNC049-070108-
/O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0012.000000T0000Z-170307T0100Z/
Goodhue MN-
658 PM CST MON MAR 6 2017
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN GOODHUE COUNTY
WILL EXPIRE AT 700 PM CST...
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and has exited the warned area. Therefore, the warning will
be allowed to expire.
A tornado watch remains in effect until 1000 PM CST for southeastern
Minnesota...and west central Wisconsin.
LAT...LON 4424 9278 4456 9242 4456 9234 4454 9231
4450 9230 4446 9224 4445 9243 4437 9243
4436 9255 4420 9256 4420 9272
TIME...MOT...LOC 0058Z 221DEG 62KT 4458 9221
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 6:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec | 35 min |
| Mar 6, 6:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue, Rice | 47 min |
| Mar 6, 6:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 42 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.