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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 6, 2018Meeker County, Stearns County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2018, 3:42 AM CDT for Meeker County, Stearns County, Minnesota. It was in force for 33 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, 3:42 AM CDT (08:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2018, 4:15 AM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Meeker County, MN, Stearns County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 82 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

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The text

As transmitted.

977 
WUUS53 KMPX 060842
SVRMPX
MNC093-145-060915-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0062.180606T0842Z-180606T0915Z/

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

The National Weather Service in The Twin Cities has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Northern Meeker County in central Minnesota...
  Southeastern Stearns County in central Minnesota...

* Until 415 AM CDT

* At 341 AM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
  extending from Albany to near Paynesville to near Kandiyohi, moving
  east at 65 mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. 

  SOURCE...Radar indicated. 

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

* These severe thunderstorms will remain over mainly rural areas of
  northern Meeker and southeastern Stearns Counties, including the 
  following locations: Fairhaven, St Augusta, Pleasant Lake, St 
  Nicholas, Luxemburg, Manannah, Lake Koronis Regional Park and 
  Forest City.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 4558 9416 4550 9415 4542 9405 4535 9409
      4531 9414 4531 9425 4513 9427 4514 9475
      4535 9477 4557 9460 4560 9420
TIME...MOT...LOC 0841Z 269DEG 57KT 4562 9453 4536 9466 4509 9489 

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, 3:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi, Meeker, Renville	25 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.