Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2021, 6:51 PM CDT for Murray County, Nobles County, Pipestone County, Minnesota. It was in force for 24 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 2021, 6:51 PM CDT (23:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2021, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
Counties Murray County, MN, Nobles County, MN, Pipestone County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 6:57 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Lake Wilson, MN | MOSTLY DIME SIZED HAIL, BUT A FEW STONES AS BIG AS QUARTERS. |
| Jun 16, 7:07 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 3 S Chandler, MN | |
| Jun 16, 7:11 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 6 Nnw Wilmont, MN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 1541 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
257 WUUS53 KFSD 162351 SVRFSD MNC101-105-117-170015- /O.NEW.KFSD.SV.W.0023.210616T2351Z-210617T0015Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Severe Thunderstorm Warning National Weather Service Sioux Falls SD 651 PM CDT Wed Jun 16 2021 The National Weather Service in Sioux Falls has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Northwestern Nobles County in southwestern Minnesota... Western Murray County in southwestern Minnesota... East central Pipestone County in southwestern Minnesota... * Until 715 PM CDT. * At 650 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Lake Wilson, or 9 miles west of Slayton, moving southeast at 35 mph. HAZARD...Quarter size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected. * This severe thunderstorm will be near... Slayton and Chandler around 700 PM CDT. Other locations impacted by this severe thunderstorm include Hadley and Iona. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. && LAT...LON 4416 9589 4384 9563 4378 9604 4409 9612 TIME...MOT...LOC 2350Z 334DEG 30KT 4404 9594 HAIL...1.00IN WIND...<50MPH $$ APT
1 follow-up statement
476
WWUS53 KFSD 170004
SVSFSD
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Sioux Falls SD
704 PM CDT Wed Jun 16 2021
MNC117-170014-
/O.CAN.KFSD.SV.W.0023.000000T0000Z-210617T0015Z/
Pipestone MN-
704 PM CDT Wed Jun 16 2021
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL PIPESTONE COUNTY
IS CANCELLED...
The severe thunderstorm which prompted the warning has moved out of
the warned area. Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.
LAT...LON 4408 9583 4384 9563 4378 9604 4400 9605
TIME...MOT...LOC 0004Z 334DEG 30KT 4393 9587
$$
MNC101-105-170015-
/O.CON.KFSD.SV.W.0023.000000T0000Z-210617T0015Z/
Nobles MN-Murray MN-
704 PM CDT Wed Jun 16 2021
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM CDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN NOBLES AND SOUTHWESTERN MURRAY COUNTIES...
At 704 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Chandler, or
near Slayton, moving southeast at 35 mph.
HAZARD...Quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected.
This severe thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of
northwestern Nobles and southwestern Murray Counties, including the
following locations... Hadley and Iona.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 4408 9583 4384 9563 4378 9604 4400 9605
TIME...MOT...LOC 0004Z 334DEG 30KT 4393 9587
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...<50MPH
$$
APTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Nobles | 29 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.