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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN

April 13, 2018Redwood County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Apr 13, 2018, 1:21 PM CDT for Redwood County, Minnesota. It was in force for 24 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
Apr 13, 2018, 1:21 PM CDT (18:21 UTC)
Expired
Apr 13, 2018, 1:45 PM CDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN

County Redwood County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 144 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2018-04-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2018-04-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -62 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
723 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

953 
WWUS83 KMPX 131821
SPSMPX

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
121 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2018

MNZ064-073-131845-
Yellow Medicine-Redwood-
121 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2018

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHWESTERN REDWOOD AND
SOUTHEASTERN YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTIES...

At 121 PM CDT, a strong thunderstorm was located near Milroy, or 15
miles east of Marshall, moving northeast at 55 mph.

Nickel size hail is possible with this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Echo, Belview, Vesta, Milroy, Lucan and Seaforth. 

LAT...LON 4474 9544 4473 9541 4470 9538 4469 9532
      4466 9529 4467 9525 4464 9521 4438 9542
      4443 9560 4445 9560
TIME...MOT...LOC 1821Z 204DEG 47KT 4446 9548 

$$

ETA

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 12, 9:34 PM CDTWinter Storm WarningMPXAnoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago and 24 more3 days
Apr 13, 8:26 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXBrown, Redwood64 min
Apr 13, 9:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBlue Earth, Brown, Watonwan14 min
Apr 13, 10:14 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXDakota, Rice46 min
Apr 13, 11:15 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningMPXBrown48 hr
Apr 13, 12:36 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXYellow Medicine39 min
Apr 13, 3:12 PM CDTWinter Weather AdvisoryMPXAnoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 31 more57 hr
Apr 13, 3:20 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXSteele25 min
Apr 13, 3:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXFreeborn33 min
Apr 13, 6:24 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXMartin, Watonwan51 min
Apr 13, 6:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBlue Earth, Brown, Watonwan31 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.