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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 15, 2022Waseca County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Jun 15, 2022, 1:15 AM CDT for Waseca County, Minnesota. It was in force for 45 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 15, 2022, 1:15 AM CDT (06:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2022, 2:00 AM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 30

County Waseca County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 117 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: 2093 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1728 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 108 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 3.6

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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
Jun 15, 12:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Ramsey, Scott, Washington	53 min
Jun 15, 12:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Chippewa, Eau Claire	59 min
Jun 15, 2:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Pierce	24 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.