Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2017
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2017, 1:24 PM CDT for Rice County, Steele County, Waseca County, Minnesota. It was in force for 36 min. 3 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
- Jun 12, 2017, 1:24 PM CDT (18:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2017, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Rice County, MN, Steele County, MN, Waseca County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:25 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 12, 1:24 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | 3 Wsw Waseca, MN | MEASURED AT THE WASECA AIRPORT. |
| Jun 12, 1:30 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Waseca, MN | MULTIPLE LIMBS DOWN IN TOWN. |
| Jun 12, 1:38 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Nnw Medford, MN | TREE DOWN ON HWY 45. |
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 12, 11:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 1135 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
332
WUUS53 KMPX 121824
SVRMPX
MNC131-147-161-121900-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0070.170612T1824Z-170612T1900Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
124 PM CDT MON JUN 12 2017
The National Weather Service in The Twin Cities has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Steele County in south central Minnesota...
Northeastern Waseca County in south central Minnesota...
Southern Rice County in south central Minnesota...
* Until 200 PM CDT
* At 124 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from near Waseca Airport to near Lemond to near New
Richland, moving northeast at 45 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Severe thunderstorms will be near,
Morristown around 135 PM CDT.
Warsaw around 140 PM CDT.
Faribault and Medford around 145 PM CDT.
Owatonna around 150 PM CDT.
Other locations impacted by these severe thunderstorms include
Clinton Falls, Waseca Airport, Lemond, Merton, Ruskin, Deerfield,
Owatonna Airport, Hope and Moland.
This includes the following highways...
Interstate 35 between mile markers 35 and 55.
U.S. Highway 14 between mile markers 158 and 182.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 4400 9352 4415 9360 4420 9352 4426 9346
4429 9321 4427 9304 4401 9305 4394 9351
TIME...MOT...LOC 1824Z 231DEG 40KT 4414 9355 4401 9344 4393 9347
HAIL...0.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 10:59 PM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago and 24 more | 9 hr |
| Jun 12, 8:48 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Blue Earth | 27 min |
| Jun 12, 9:10 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Waseca | 35 min |
| Jun 12, 10:42 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Steele | 33 min |
| Jun 12, 11:11 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Martin | 49 min |
| Jun 12, 11:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Blue Earth | 56 min |
| Jun 12, 11:48 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Freeborn | 57 min |
| Jun 12, 11:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Martin, Watonwan | 33 min |
| Jun 12, 12:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown | 46 min |
| Jun 12, 12:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Faribault | 44 min |
| Jun 12, 12:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Blue Earth | 48 min |
| Jun 12, 12:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Waseca | 36 min |
| Jun 12, 1:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Freeborn | 51 min |
| Jun 12, 1:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Le Sueur, Rice | 26 min |
| Jun 12, 1:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue, Rice | 39 min |
| Jun 12, 2:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Steele | 18 min |
| Jun 12, 3:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Faribault | 45 min |
| Jun 12, 3:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Freeborn | 46 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.