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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Twin Cities, MN

May 15, 2017Goodhue County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2017, 10:25 PM CDT for Goodhue County, Minnesota. It was in force for 26 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: May 15, 2017, 10:25 PM CDT (03:25 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 2017, 10:51 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County Goodhue County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:26 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 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, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 95 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

694 
WUUS53 KMPX 160325
SVRMPX
MNC049-160415-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0023.170516T0325Z-170516T0415Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
1025 PM CDT MON MAY 15 2017

The National Weather Service in The Twin Cities has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Southwestern Goodhue County in southeastern Minnesota...

* Until 1115 PM CDT

* At 1025 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over County Roads
  1 And 24, or 12 miles northwest of Dodge Center, moving northeast
  at 55 mph.

  HAZARD...Quarter size hail. 

  SOURCE...Radar indicated. 

  IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected. 

* This severe thunderstorm will be near,
  Wanamingo around 1040 PM CDT. 
  Pine Island and Zumbrota around 1045 PM CDT. 

Other locations impacted by this severe thunderstorm include
Bellechester.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 4422 9304 4446 9244 4445 9243 4437 9243
      4436 9255 4423 9255 4419 9267 4420 9305
TIME...MOT...LOC 0325Z 241DEG 50KT 4418 9299 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...<50MPH
 
$$

BORGHOFF

1 follow-up statement

329 
WWUS53 KMPX 160351
SVSMPX

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
1051 PM CDT MON MAY 15 2017

MNC049-160400-
/O.CAN.KMPX.SV.W.0023.000000T0000Z-170516T0415Z/
Goodhue MN-
1051 PM CDT MON MAY 15 2017

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN GOODHUE COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
                
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore the warning has been cancelled.

A severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect until 300 AM CDT for
south central and southeastern Minnesota.

LAT...LON 4422 9304 4446 9244 4445 9243 4437 9243
      4436 9255 4423 9255 4419 9267 4420 9305
TIME...MOT...LOC 0349Z 241DEG 50KT 4435 9256 

$$

BORGHOFF

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 15, 8:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Faribault	37 min
May 15, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Waseca	43 min
May 15, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Waseca	35 min
May 15, 10:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Steele	56 min
May 15, 11:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Waseca	34 min
May 15, 11:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Rice	36 min
May 16, 1:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Rice	42 min
May 16, 3:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine	55 min
May 16, 3:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Stevens, Swift	28 min
May 16, 4:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Kandiyohi, Stearns	55 min
May 16, 5:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Brown, Martin, Redwood, Watonwan	84 min
May 16, 2:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	MPX	Faribault, Freeborn, Goodhue, Rice, Steele, Waseca	12 hr
May 16, 3:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Rice	26 min
May 16, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota, Goodhue, Rice	48 min
May 16, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota, Washington	39 min
May 16, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Washington	52 min
May 16, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota, Goodhue, Rice	43 min
May 16, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Rice	33 min
May 16, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota, Goodhue	44 min
May 16, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Goodhue	47 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.