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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN

July 4, 2024Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Jul 4, 2024, 12:10 PM CDT for Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. It was in force for 50 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 4, 2024, 12:10 PM CDT (17:10 UTC)
Expired: Jul 4, 2024, 1:00 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 50
Spout: Possible

County Yellow Medicine County, MN

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 156 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: 179 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1440 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -16 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 Jul 4, 6:25 AM CDT, 5 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 6:25 AM CDT, 5 hours 45 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 4, 4:11 AM CDT, 7 hours 59 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 4, 12:10 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
1210 PM CDT Thu Jul 4 2024

MNZ056-064-065-073-041800-
Chippewa MN-Yellow Medicine MN-Renville MN-Redwood MN-
1210 PM CDT Thu Jul 4 2024

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT SOUTH CENTRAL CHIPPEWA...
NORTHWESTERN REDWOOD...SOUTHEASTERN YELLOW MEDICINE AND NORTHWESTERN
RENVILLE COUNTIES THROUGH 100 PM CDT...

At 1210 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a cluster of strong
thunderstorms capable of producing a landspout near Cottonwood, or 13
miles northeast of Marshall, moving northeast at 30 mph.

HAZARD...Landspouts, wind gusts up to 50 mph, and penny size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Minor damage to outdoor objects is possible. Gusty winds
         could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured
         objects.

Locations impacted include...
Granite Falls, Sacred Heart, Wood Lake, Maynard, Hanley Falls, Echo,
Minnesota Falls, Belview, Vesta, Delhi, Hazel Run, and Granite Falls
Airport.

This includes U.S. Highway 212 between mile markers 45 and 61.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

To report severe weather, contact your nearest law enforcement
agency. They will relay your report to the National Weather Service
office in the Twin Cities.

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LAT...LON 4495 9549 4461 9511 4444 9559 4462 9561
      4463 9563 4463 9576 4468 9580
TIME...MOT...LOC 1710Z 240DEG 25KT 4458 9559

LANDSPOUT...POSSIBLE
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH

CTG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 4, 3:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Goodhue	49 min
Jul 4, 4:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Goodhue	40 min
Jul 4, 6:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Martin	44 min

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Sources

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