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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 11, 2017Redwood County, Renville County, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2017, 6:27 AM CDT for Redwood County, Renville County, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. It was in force for 48 min. 1 report 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: Jun 11, 2017, 6:27 AM CDT (11:27 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2017, 7:15 AM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:27 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 11, 6:50 AM CDT	TSTM WND GST 66	4 Ssw Granite Falls, MN	AWOS STATION GDB, GRANITE FALLS AP.

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
Jun 11, 2:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 156 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: 1841 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1879 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 4.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

057 
WUUS53 KMPX 111127
SVRMPX
MNC127-129-173-111215-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0053.170611T1127Z-170611T1215Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
627 AM CDT SUN JUN 11 2017

The National Weather Service in The Twin Cities has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Northwestern Redwood County in southwestern Minnesota...
  Southeastern Yellow Medicine County in west central Minnesota...
  Northwestern Renville County in central Minnesota...

* Until 715 AM CDT

* At 627 AM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
  extending from Boyd to near Camden State Park, moving east at 50
  mph.

  HAZARD...70 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. 

  SOURCE...Radar indicated. 

  IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect considerable 
           tree damage. Wind damage is also likely to mobile homes, 
           roofs, and outbuildings. 

* Severe thunderstorms will be near,
  Sacred Heart around 700 AM CDT. 

Other locations impacted by these severe thunderstorms include
Granite Falls Airport, Seaforth, Delhi, Belview, Milroy, Vesta,
Spellman Lake and Minnesota Falls.

This includes the following highways...
 U.S. Highway 212 between mile markers 53 and 64.
 U.S. Highway 59 between mile markers 87 and 92.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 4478 9552 4477 9549 4489 9548 4489 9526
      4445 9517 4440 9559 4463 9561 4463 9600
      4466 9600
TIME...MOT...LOC 1127Z 271DEG 42KT 4483 9591 4440 9601 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...70MPH
 
$$

jrb

1 follow-up statement

267 
WWUS53 KMPX 111143
SVSMPX

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
643 AM CDT SUN JUN 11 2017

MNC127-129-173-111215-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0053.000000T0000Z-170611T1215Z/
Redwood MN-Yellow Medicine MN-Renville MN-
643 AM CDT SUN JUN 11 2017

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 AM CDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN REDWOOD...SOUTHEASTERN YELLOW MEDICINE AND
NORTHWESTERN RENVILLE COUNTIES...

At 643 AM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from near Granite Falls to near Marshall, moving east at 55
mph.

HAZARD...70 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. 

SOURCE...Trained weather spotters. 

IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect considerable 
         tree damage. Wind damage is also likely to mobile homes, 
         roofs, and outbuildings. 

These severe storms will be near...
  Sacred Heart around 700 AM CDT. 

Other locations impacted by these severe thunderstorms include
Granite Falls Airport, Seaforth, Delhi, Belview, Milroy, Vesta,
Spellman Lake and Minnesota Falls.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 4478 9552 4477 9549 4489 9548 4489 9526
      4445 9517 4440 9559 4463 9561 4463 9600
      4466 9600
TIME...MOT...LOC 1143Z 267DEG 46KT 4485 9562 4442 9572 

TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...70MPH
 
$$

jrb

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 5:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift, Yellow Medicine	49 min
Jun 11, 6:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Lac qui Parle, Swift	36 min
Jun 11, 6:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Swift	66 min
Jun 11, 6:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi, Meeker, Redwood, Renville	55 min
Jun 11, 7:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Brown, Redwood	55 min
Jun 11, 7:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	McLeod, Meeker, Sibley, Wright	54 min
Jun 11, 7:34 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi, Meeker	26 min
Jun 11, 7:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Stearns, Wright	52 min
Jun 11, 7:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver, Hennepin, Wright	55 min
Jun 11, 7:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Pope, Stevens, Swift, Yellow Medicine	109 min
Jun 11, 8:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Brown	45 min
Jun 11, 8:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Benton, Morrison, Sherburne	40 min
Jun 11, 8:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Le Sueur, McLeod, Scott, Sibley	50 min
Jun 11, 8:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Nicollet	51 min
Jun 11, 8:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Anoka, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott	48 min
Jun 11, 8:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Chisago, Isanti	67 min
Jun 11, 8:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota, Washington	40 min
Jun 11, 9:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Goodhue, Le Sueur, Rice	60 min
Jun 11, 9:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Anoka, Chisago, Washington	28 min
Jun 11, 9:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Goodhue	38 min
Jun 11, 9:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Benton, Douglas, Morrison, Pope, Stearns, Todd	109 min
Jun 11, 4:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Wright	37 min
Jun 11, 4:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Isanti	33 min
Jun 11, 5:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Wright	34 min
Jun 11, 5:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Ramsey	33 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.