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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN

March 31, 20234 counties in Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Mar 31, 2023, 12:57 AM CDT for 4 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 31, 2023, 12:57 AM CDT (05:57 UTC)
Expired: Mar 31, 2023, 4:00 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN

Counties Dakota County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Rice County, MN, Scott County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 38 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: 830 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 542 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 682 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 Mar 30, 11:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 11:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 31, 12:57 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

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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
Mar 30, 9:23 PM CDT	Winter Storm Warning	MPX	Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 34 more	34 hr
Mar 30, 9:23 PM CDT	Winter Weather Advisory	MPX	Faribault, Freeborn, Martin	17 hr
Mar 31, 3:41 AM CDT	Blizzard Warning	MPX	Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago and 29 more	27 hr
Mar 31, 2:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Le Sueur	16 min
Mar 31, 2:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Le Sueur	23 min
Mar 31, 3:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Scott	16 min
Mar 31, 3:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Benton	27 min
Mar 31, 3:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Scott	25 min
Mar 31, 3:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Hennepin	18 min
Mar 31, 4:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Waseca	19 min
Mar 31, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Waseca	26 min
Mar 31, 4:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Hennepin	24 min
Mar 31, 5:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Carver	28 min
Mar 31, 6:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Hennepin	55 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.