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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN

May 16, 2019Kandiyohi County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at May 16, 2019, 3:16 AM CDT for Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. It was in force for 29 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: May 16, 2019, 3:16 AM CDT (08:16 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 2019, 3:45 AM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN

County Kandiyohi County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 256 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: 389 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -119 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1911 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 167 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 428 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 9.2

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The text

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 16, 12:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Stevens	43 min
May 16, 3:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Hennepin, McLeod, Wright	40 min
May 16, 4:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Brown, Redwood	42 min
May 16, 4:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Renville	27 min
May 16, 5:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Pierce	35 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Minnesota, 2019 Every special weather statement in 2019

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.