Alert archive / Minnesota / Special Weather Statements in 2021
Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Jun 11, 2021, 7:49 AM CDT for Benton County, Meeker County, Stearns County, Minnesota. It was in force for 56 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 11, 2021, 7:49 AM CDT (12:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2021, 8:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Benton County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Stearns County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 752 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -207 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1602 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
665
WWUS83 KMPX 111249
SPSMPX
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
749 AM CDT Fri Jun 11 2021
MNZ043-049>051-057>059-066-111345-
Benton-Morrison-Sherburne-McLeod-Stearns-Kandiyohi-Meeker-Wright-
749 AM CDT Fri Jun 11 2021
...A LINE OF SHOWERS WILL AFFECT WESTERN WRIGHT...MEEKER...
NORTHWESTERN MCLEOD...WESTERN BENTON...NORTHWESTERN SHERBURNE...
STEARNS...SOUTHWESTERN MORRISON AND EASTERN KANDIYOHI COUNTIES...
At 749 AM CDT, a line of showers was located along a line extending
from Upsala to 6 miles west of Paynesville. Movement was east at 30
mph.
Winds in excess of 40 mph are possible with these showers.
Locations impacted include...
St. Cloud, Hutchinson, Sauk Rapids, Litchfield, Waite Park, St.
Joseph, Cold Spring, Collegeville, Annandale, Cokato, Albany and
Rockville.
LAT...LON 4583 9394 4543 9405 4490 9423 4489 9465
4489 9510 4531 9492 4589 9458
TIME...MOT...LOC 1249Z 280DEG 26KT 4580 9458 4539 9485
$$
ETAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 5:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine | 55 min |
| Jun 11, 5:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Stevens, Swift | 50 min |
| Jun 11, 6:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope | 51 min |
| Jun 11, 6:36 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chippewa, Swift, Yellow Medicine | 39 min |
| Jun 11, 6:54 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Douglas, Pope, Todd | 66 min |
| Jun 11, 7:22 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Yellow Medicine | 38 min |
| Jun 11, 7:53 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Brown, McLeod, Redwood, Renville | 67 min |
| Jun 11, 8:32 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Martin, Watonwan | 58 min |
| Jun 11, 9:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault | 60 min |
| Jun 11, 10:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Freeborn, Rice, Steele, Waseca | 46 min |
| Jun 11, 11:04 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Goodhue | 56 min |
| Jun 11, 11:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 34 min |
| Jun 10, 8:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chippewa, Rusk | 82 min |
| Jun 11, 12:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn, Pepin, Pierce | 38 min |
| Jun 11, 12:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Dunn | 51 min |
| Jun 11, 1:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chippewa | 40 min |
| Jun 11, 1:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chippewa | 33 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.