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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2018, 3:57 AM CDT for 5 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 48 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, 3:57 AM CDT (08:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2018, 4:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Renville County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Wright County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:56 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 79 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.
780
WUUS53 KMPX 060857
SVRMPX
MNC085-093-129-143-171-060945-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0063.180606T0857Z-180606T0945Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
357 AM CDT WED JUN 6 2018
The National Weather Service in The Twin Cities has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southwestern Wright County in central Minnesota...
Southern Meeker County in central Minnesota...
Northwestern Sibley County in central Minnesota...
McLeod County in central Minnesota...
Northeastern Renville County in central Minnesota...
* Until 445 AM CDT
* At 356 AM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from near Grove City to near Cosmos to near Franklin,
moving east at 55 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,
Cosmos around 400 AM CDT.
Litchfield around 405 AM CDT.
Dassel around 415 AM CDT.
Hutchinson, Cokato and Stewart around 420 AM CDT.
Silver Lake and Brownton around 425 AM CDT.
Other locations impacted by these severe thunderstorms include
Strout, Corvuso, Smith Lake, Sumter, Greenleaf, Darwin, Biscay and
Lakeside.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 4489 9480 4489 9476 4498 9476 4514 9471
4513 9401 4461 9402 4463 9492
TIME...MOT...LOC 0856Z 264DEG 47KT 4509 9466 4486 9473 4460 9489
HAIL...0.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$2 follow-up statements
834
WWUS53 KMPX 060924
SVSMPX
Severe Weather Statement National Weather Service Twin
Cities/Chanhassen MN 424 AM CDT WED JUN 6 2018
MNC085-093-129-143-171-060945-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0063.000000T0000Z-180606T0945Z/
Wright MN-Meeker MN-Sibley MN-McLeod MN-Renville MN-
424 AM CDT WED JUN 6 2018
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 445 AM CDT
FOR SOUTHWESTERN WRIGHT...SOUTHEASTERN MEEKER...NORTHWESTERN
SIBLEY...MCLEOD AND NORTHEASTERN RENVILLE COUNTIES...
At 423 AM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from near Cokato to near Silver Lake to near Fernando,
moving east at 55 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
These severe storms will be near...
Howard Lake around 430 AM CDT.
Winsted and Lester Prairie around 435 AM CDT.
Arlington around 440 AM CDT.
Other locations impacted by these severe thunderstorms include Smith
Lake, Sumter, Greenleaf, Darwin, Biscay, Lakeside, Fernando and
Plato.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 4513 9401 4461 9402 4462 9462 4484 9456
4514 9449
TIME...MOT...LOC 0923Z 264DEG 47KT 4512 9419 4489 9426 4463 9442
HAIL...0.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$891
WWUS53 KMPX 060938
SVSMPX
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
438 AM CDT WED JUN 6 2018
MNC085-093-129-143-171-060947-
/O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0063.000000T0000Z-180606T0945Z/
Wright MN-Meeker MN-Sibley MN-McLeod MN-Renville MN-
438 AM CDT WED JUN 6 2018
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN WRIGHT...
SOUTHEASTERN MEEKER...NORTHWESTERN SIBLEY...MCLEOD AND NORTHEASTERN
RENVILLE COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 445 AM CDT...
The storms which prompted the warning have weakened below severe
limits, and no longer pose an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore the warning will be allowed to expire. However wind
gusts to 45mph are still possible with these thunderstorms.
A severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect until 600 AM CDT for
central Minnesota.
LAT...LON 4513 9401 4461 9402 4462 9462 4484 9456
4514 9449
TIME...MOT...LOC 0937Z 264DEG 47KT 4514 9396 4491 9403 4465 9419
$$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, 3:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker, Stearns | 33 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 |
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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.