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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 13, 2017Stevens County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2017, 6:51 AM CDT for Stevens County, Minnesota. It was in force for 24 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: Jun 13, 2017, 6:51 AM CDT (11:51 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2017, 7:15 AM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Stevens County, MN

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 179 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:55 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 nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 193 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: 2821 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

310 
WUUS53 KMPX 131151
SVRMPX
MNC149-131215-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0072.170613T1151Z-170613T1215Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
651 AM CDT TUE JUN 13 2017

The National Weather Service in The Twin Cities has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Stevens County in west central Minnesota...

* Until 715 AM CDT

* At 650 AM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
  extending from near Wendell to near Fish Lake to near Odessa,
  moving northeast at 50 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. 

* Severe thunderstorms will be near,
  Donnelly around 655 AM CDT. 
  Lake Hattie around 715 AM CDT. 

Other locations impacted by these severe thunderstorms include
Alberta, Fish Lake and Morris Airport.

This includes U.S. Highway 59 between mile markers 156 and 177.
 
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 4576 9625 4576 9577 4544 9576 4543 9609
      4541 9614 4541 9622 4542 9625 4558 9624
      4564 9625
TIME...MOT...LOC 1150Z 229DEG 45KT 4598 9608 4566 9606 4530 9631 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

LS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 7:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Douglas, Pope, Stevens	60 min
Jun 13, 8:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Douglas, Pope	60 min
Jun 13, 8:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Todd	24 min
Jun 13, 9:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Morrison	25 min
Jun 13, 10:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Stearns	86 min
Jun 13, 5:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Lac qui Parle	38 min
Jun 13, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift	44 min
Jun 13, 5:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Swift	45 min
Jun 13, 6:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Pope, Stevens, Swift	57 min
Jun 13, 6:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Stevens	38 min
Jun 13, 6:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	MPX	Douglas, Pope, Stevens	32 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.