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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 4, 2019Nicollet County, Sibley County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2019, 3:58 PM CDT for Nicollet County, Sibley County, Minnesota. It was in force for 32 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 4, 2019, 3:58 PM CDT (20:58 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2019, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Nicollet County, MN, Sibley County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:01 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 4, 12:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 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.

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: 1070 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 174 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

991 
WUUS53 KMPX 042058
SVRMPX
MNC103-143-042130-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0021.190604T2058Z-190604T2130Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
358 PM CDT Tue Jun 4 2019

The National Weather Service in The Twin Cities has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  South central Sibley County in central Minnesota...
  Nicollet County in south central Minnesota...

* Until 430 PM CDT.

* At 357 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 8 miles southeast
  of Lafayette, or 12 miles northeast of New Ulm, moving east at 55
  mph.

  HAZARD...Ping pong ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect hail 
           damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect 
           wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.

* Locations impacted include...
  St. Peter, Nicollet, Lafayette, Oshawa and Klossner. 

This includes the following highways...
 U.S. Highway 14 between mile markers 113 and 123.
 U.S. Highway 169 between mile markers 61 and 68, and between mile
markers 70 and 72.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.

&&

LAT...LON 4421 9422 4422 9422 4421 9424 4441 9451
      4454 9431 4446 9422 4441 9395 4436 9396
      4434 9393 4426 9403 4419 9417
TIME...MOT...LOC 2057Z 284DEG 47KT 4440 9424 

HAIL...1.50IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

CTG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 11:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Douglas	26 min
Jun 4, 11:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Douglas	37 min
Jun 4, 11:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Douglas	31 min
Jun 4, 12:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Douglas, Pope, Stevens	29 min
Jun 4, 12:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Todd	24 min
Jun 4, 12:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Stevens	21 min
Jun 4, 12:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Douglas, Pope	33 min
Jun 4, 12:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Stearns	25 min
Jun 4, 12:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi, Pope, Stearns, Swift	34 min
Jun 4, 12:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Stearns	34 min
Jun 4, 1:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Chippewa	30 min
Jun 4, 1:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi, Pope, Stearns	51 min
Jun 4, 1:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa	24 min
Jun 4, 1:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Meeker, Stearns	46 min
Jun 4, 1:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Renville, Yellow Medicine	43 min
Jun 4, 1:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi	23 min
Jun 4, 2:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Benton, Mille Lacs, Sherburne	52 min
Jun 4, 2:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi, Meeker	32 min
Jun 4, 2:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Renville, Sibley	40 min
Jun 4, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	McLeod, Meeker, Renville	50 min
Jun 4, 3:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Renville, Sibley	28 min
Jun 4, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver, McLeod, Renville, Sibley	41 min
Jun 4, 4:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Ramsey, Washington	51 min
Jun 4, 4:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Carver, Dakota	49 min
Jun 4, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver, Le Sueur, Nicollet, Rice, Scott, Sibley	32 min
Jun 4, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Redwood, Renville, Yellow Medicine	27 min
Jun 4, 4:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Dakota, Scott	26 min
Jun 4, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Dakota, Goodhue, Le Sueur, Rice, Steele and 1 more	28 min
Jun 4, 4:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Lac qui Parle	87 min
Jun 4, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Redwood, Renville, Yellow Medicine	37 min
Jun 4, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota, Goodhue, Scott	31 min
Jun 4, 5:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota, Goodhue	27 min
Jun 4, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota, Goodhue, Le Sueur, Rice, Steele, Waseca	34 min
Jun 4, 5:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Goodhue	15 min
Jun 4, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota, Goodhue, Washington	33 min
Jun 4, 5:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Goodhue	33 min
Jun 4, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Yellow Medicine	45 min
Jun 4, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Freeborn, Steele, Waseca	25 min
Jun 4, 5:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Redwood	38 min
Jun 4, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota, Goodhue, Rice, Steele	33 min
Jun 4, 5:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Freeborn	31 min
Jun 4, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Goodhue	45 min
Jun 4, 6:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	McLeod, Sibley	28 min
Jun 4, 6:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Brown	25 min
Jun 4, 6:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Yellow Medicine	36 min
Jun 4, 6:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Nicollet	34 min
Jun 4, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Faribault, Martin	14 min
Jun 4, 6:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine	4 hr

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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.