Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2018
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2018, 3:35 AM CDT for Kandiyohi County, Meeker County, Renville County, Minnesota. It was in force for 25 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, 3:35 AM CDT (08:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2018, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 25 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, Renville County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted.
636
WUUS53 KMPX 060835
SVRMPX
MNC067-093-129-060900-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0061.180606T0835Z-180606T0900Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
335 AM CDT WED JUN 6 2018
The National Weather Service in The Twin Cities has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southwestern Meeker County in central Minnesota...
Renville County in central Minnesota...
Southern Kandiyohi County in central Minnesota...
* Until 400 AM CDT
* At 335 AM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from near Kandiyohi to near Danube to Belview, moving
east at 70 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,
Atwater and Grove City around 345 AM CDT.
Cosmos around 350 AM CDT.
Litchfield around 355 AM CDT.
Other locations impacted by these severe thunderstorms include
Bechyn, Kandiyohi, Strout, Thorpe, Corvuso, Blomkest, Priam, Lake
Lillian and Greenleaf.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 4490 9525 4516 9511 4515 9448 4472 9451
4471 9463 4464 9463 4463 9465 4471 9539
TIME...MOT...LOC 0835Z 266DEG 63KT 4512 9497 4486 9509 4459 9532
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 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, 3:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker, Pope, Stearns, Swift | 34 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.