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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN

July 16, 2022Pope County, Stearns County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Jul 16, 2022, 6:33 PM CDT for Pope County, Stearns County, Minnesota. It was in force for 42 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
Jul 16, 2022, 6:33 PM CDT (23:33 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 2022, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Hail
0.50 in
Wind
40

Counties Pope County, MN, Stearns County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 272 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2022-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1732 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2022-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 58 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1732 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
867 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
4.0

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 3:54 AM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryMPXFreeborn, Goodhue, Rice, Steele, Waseca5 hr
Jul 16, 5:31 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXDouglas44 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.