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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Apr 30, 2024, 6:44 PM CDT for Freeborn County, Minnesota. It was in force for 46 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
- Apr 30, 2024, 6:44 PM CDT (23:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2024, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Hail
- 0.25 in
- Wind
- 50
County Freeborn County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 335 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -289 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1819 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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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 Apr 30, 6:01 PM CDT, 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 30, 6:01 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN 317 PM CDT Tue Apr 30 2024 MNZ051>070-073>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ014>016-023>028-012030- Sherburne-Isanti-Chisago-Lac Qui Parle-Swift-Chippewa-Kandiyohi- Meeker-Wright-Hennepin-Anoka-Ramsey-Washington-Yellow Medicine- Renville-McLeod-Sibley-Carver-Scott-Dakota-Redwood-Brown-Nicollet- Le Sueur-Rice-Goodhue-Watonwan-Blue Earth-Waseca-Steele-Martin- Faribault-Freeborn-Polk-Barron-Rusk-St. Croix-Pierce-Dunn-Pepin- Eau Claire- 317 PM CDT Tue Apr 30 2024 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of central and southern Minnesota, and west central Wisconsin. .DAY ONE...Tonight. A line of thunderstorms is expected to move across central and southern Minnesota and western Wisconsin this evening. A few storms may be strong or severe, with the potential for damaging winds, large hail, and an isolated tornado. The greatest risk of severe storms will exist in southern Minnesota from Mankato and points south. Locally heavy rainfall is also possible. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. Widespread rain and the chance for thunderstorms will return to the forecast Thursday, with another round of thunderstorms possible on Monday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN spotter activation may be needed this evening. MNZ041>045-047>050-012030- Douglas-Todd-Morrison-Mille Lacs-Kanabec-Stevens-Pope-Stearns- Benton- 317 PM CDT Tue Apr 30 2024 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of central Minnesota...east central Minnesota and west central Minnesota. .DAY ONE...Tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. Widespread rain and the chance for thunderstorms will return to the forecast Thursday, with another round of thunderstorms possible on Monday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN spotter activation will not be needed. Borghoff
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 30, 5:59 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 3:43 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MPX | Redwood, Renville | 4 days |
| Apr 30, 5:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Faribault, Waseca | 46 min |
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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.