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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2024, 9:33 PM CDT for Swift 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
- Jun 2, 2024, 9:33 PM CDT (02:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2024, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Swift County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 178 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 895 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 396 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted.
864
WUUS53 KMPX 030233
SVRMPX
MNC151-030315-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0021.240603T0233Z-240603T0315Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
933 PM CDT Sun Jun 2 2024
The National Weather Service in the Twin Cities has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Northwestern Swift County in west central Minnesota...
* Until 1015 PM CDT.
* At 933 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 7 miles east of
Lake Oliver, or 17 miles south of Morris, moving east at 15 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Benson, Lake Hassel, Clontarf, Danvers, Holloway, and Benson
Airport.
This includes the following highways...
U.S. Highway 12 between mile markers 24 and 42.
U.S. Highway 59 between mile markers 141 and 153.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Large hail, damaging wind, and continuous cloud to ground lightning
are occurring with this storm. Move indoors immediately. Lightning is
one of nature's leading killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder,
you are close enough to be struck by lightning.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
&&
LAT...LON 4541 9546 4524 9571 4524 9598 4541 9598
TIME...MOT...LOC 0233Z 258DEG 15KT 4534 9588
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.25 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH
$$
JPC1 follow-up statement
777
WWUS53 KMPX 030302
SVSMPX
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
1002 PM CDT Sun Jun 2 2024
MNC151-030315-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-240603T0315Z/
Swift MN-
1002 PM CDT Sun Jun 2 2024
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1015 PM CDT
FOR NORTH CENTRAL SWIFT COUNTY...
At 1002 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Benson, or 20
miles southeast of Morris, moving east at 25 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to
roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Benson, Lake Hassel, Clontarf, Danvers, and Benson Airport.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Continuous cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature's leading
killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to
be struck by lightning.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
&&
LAT...LON 4541 9546 4524 9571 4524 9586 4541 9580
TIME...MOT...LOC 0302Z 268DEG 20KT 4534 9570
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.25 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH
$$
JPCThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 7:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Douglas | 23 min |
| Jun 2, 7:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 7:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Rice | 37 min |
| Jun 2, 7:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Stearns | 33 min |
| Jun 2, 7:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Goodhue | 28 min |
| Jun 2, 7:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Todd | 40 min |
| Jun 2, 8:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Stevens | 40 min |
| Jun 2, 8:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Steele | 35 min |
| Jun 2, 8:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Swift | 46 min |
| Jun 2, 9:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Morrison | 44 min |
| Jun 2, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 40 min |
| Jun 2, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Pope, Stearns, Swift | 43 min |
| Jun 2, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Swift | 45 min |
| Jun 2, 11:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Meeker | 28 min |
| Jun 2, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle | 24 min |
| Jun 3, 1:50 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Renville | 25 min |
| Jun 3, 2:09 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 3:22 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Carver, Hennepin, Scott, Sibley | 38 min |
| Jun 3, 4:09 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MPX | Carver, Scott, Sibley | 4 hr |
| Jun 3, 4:21 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MPX | Dakota, Rice | 60 hr |
| Jun 3, 4:59 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue, Le Sueur, Nicollet, Rice, Scott and 1 more | 17 hr |
| Jun 3, 9:52 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Scott, Sibley | 5 days |
| Jun 3, 9:56 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MPX | Carver, Scott, Sibley | 9 days |
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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.