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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 20, 2022Pope County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Jun 20, 2022, 6:17 PM CDT for Pope County, Minnesota. It was in force for 28 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 20, 2022, 6:17 PM CDT (23:17 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 2022, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 50

County Pope County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 259 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: 951 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -294 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1557 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 174 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 144 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Twin Cities, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jun 20, 2:35 PM CDT, 3 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 2:35 PM CDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 20, 2:48 PM CDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 20, 6:17 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
617 PM CDT Mon Jun 20 2022

MNZ048-049-055-057-202345-
Kandiyohi MN-Stearns MN-Pope MN-Swift MN-
617 PM CDT Mon Jun 20 2022

...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southeastern Pope,
west central Stearns, northeastern Swift and northwestern Kandiyohi
Counties through 645 PM CDT...

At 617 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 10
miles northeast of Murdock, or 18 miles northwest of Willmar, moving
northeast at 45 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects.

This strong thunderstorm will be near...
  Brooten around 635 PM CDT.

Other locations impacted by this storm include Sunburg, Padua and
Elrosa.

This includes U.S. Highway 71 between mile markers 154 and 156.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 4526 9522 4533 9538 4564 9517 4556 9491
TIME...MOT...LOC 2317Z 212DEG 41KT 4535 9527

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH

Borghoff

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 20, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Morrison, Stearns, Todd	35 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.