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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Twin Cities, MN

October 9, 2021Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 9, 2021, 7:35 PM CDT for Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota. It was in force for 25 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: Oct 9, 2021, 7:35 PM CDT (00:35 UTC)
Expired: Oct 9, 2021, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Lac qui Parle County, MN

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Oct 9, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 169 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: 1552 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 150 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

120 
WUUS53 KMPX 100035
SVRMPX
MNC073-100100-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0133.211010T0035Z-211010T0100Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
735 PM CDT Sat Oct 9 2021

The National Weather Service in the Twin Cities has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Lac qui Parle County in west central Minnesota...

* Until 800 PM CDT.

* At 735 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Bellingham,
  or 12 miles southeast of Ortonville, moving northeast at 50 mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage 
           to roofs, siding, and trees.

* This severe thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of Lac
  qui Parle County, including the following locations... Nassau,
  Providence, Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge, Madison Airport,
  Louisburg, Cerro Gordo and Florida Creek Wildlife Management Area.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 4527 9645 4527 9642 4525 9640 4525 9629
      4522 9627 4522 9622 4519 9617 4519 9612
      4514 9602 4480 9611 4480 9645
TIME...MOT...LOC 0035Z 210DEG 44KT 4517 9626 

TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH

$$

CTG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 9, 7:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine	62 min
Oct 9, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Stevens, Swift	41 min
Oct 9, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Stevens, Swift	49 min
Oct 9, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Lac qui Parle	47 min
Oct 9, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Douglas, Pope	45 min
Oct 9, 10:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Pope, Swift, Todd, Yellow Medicine	3 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.