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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2018, 4:34 AM CDT for 6 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 41 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, 4:34 AM CDT (09:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2018, 5:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Watonwan County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:37 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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 74 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.
188
WUUS53 KMPX 060934
SVRMPX
MNC013-015-079-103-143-165-061015-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0064.180606T0934Z-180606T1015Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
434 AM CDT WED JUN 6 2018
The National Weather Service in The Twin Cities has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Central Le Sueur County in south central Minnesota...
Southeastern Sibley County in central Minnesota...
Southeastern Brown County in south central Minnesota...
Blue Earth County in south central Minnesota...
Northern Watonwan County in south central Minnesota...
Nicollet County in south central Minnesota...
* Until 515 AM CDT
* At 433 AM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from near Winthrop to near New Ulm to near St. James,
moving east at 50 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,
Gaylord around 440 AM CDT.
Arlington and Nicollet around 445 AM CDT.
Lewisville around 450 AM CDT.
Le Sueur and Henderson around 455 AM CDT.
Mankato, St. Peter and Kasota around 500 AM CDT.
Other locations impacted by these severe thunderstorms include
Klossner, Skyline, St Thomas, Rush River, Lake Jefferson, Garden
City, St Henry and Norseland.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 4395 9484 4432 9449 4462 9437 4459 9389
4456 9390 4455 9389 4454 9362 4417 9377
4389 9403
TIME...MOT...LOC 0933Z 287DEG 44KT 4455 9430 4431 9440 4404 9465
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, 3:42 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, 4:50 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.