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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 6, 20185 counties in Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2018, 3:11 AM CDT for 5 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 34 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 6, 2018, 3:11 AM CDT (08:11 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2018, 3:45 AM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Kandiyohi County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Pope County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Swift County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:10 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
Jun 6, 1:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 132 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: 1959 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 211 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

070 
WUUS53 KMPX 060811
SVRMPX
MNC067-093-121-145-151-060845-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0060.180606T0811Z-180606T0845Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
311 AM CDT WED JUN 6 2018

The National Weather Service in The Twin Cities has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Eastern Pope County in west central Minnesota...
  Northwestern Meeker County in central Minnesota...
  Stearns County in central Minnesota...
  Eastern Swift County in west central Minnesota...
  Northern Kandiyohi County in central Minnesota...

* Until 345 AM CDT

* At 310 AM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
  extending from Villard to near Sunburg to 8 miles north of Gluek,
  moving east at 60 mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts. 

  SOURCE...Radar indicated. At 300AM a 67 mph wind gust was 
           reported at Benson. 

  IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. 

* Severe thunderstorms will be near,
  Sauk Centre around 325 AM CDT. 
  Willmar, Melrose, New London and Spicer around 330 AM CDT. 
  Freeport around 335 AM CDT. 
  St. Anthony and Paynesville around 340 AM CDT. 
  Albany, Avon and Holdingford around 345 AM CDT. 

Other locations impacted by these severe thunderstorms include 
Spring Hill, St. Martin, Greenwald, Green Lake, New Munich, Meire 
Grove, Sedan and Westport.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 4577 9440 4530 9453 4515 9474 4515 9546
      4539 9535 4576 9523 4576 9514 4578 9513
      4578 9506
TIME...MOT...LOC 0810Z 273DEG 52KT 4573 9524 4534 9535 4511 9551 

HAIL...<.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 6, 1:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Douglas, Stevens, Todd	66 min
Jun 6, 2:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Douglas, Todd	51 min
Jun 6, 2:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Pope, Stevens, Swift	57 min
Jun 6, 2:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine	55 min
Jun 6, 3:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi, Meeker, Renville	25 min
Jun 6, 3:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Meeker, Stearns	33 min
Jun 6, 3:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	McLeod, Meeker, Renville, Sibley, Wright	48 min
Jun 6, 4:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Brown, Le Sueur, Nicollet, Sibley, Watonwan	41 min
Jun 6, 4:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Faribault, Martin, Watonwan	25 min
Jun 6, 5:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, Washington	43 min
Jun 6, 5:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Faribault, Freeborn, Steele, Waseca	66 min

Nearby

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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.