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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Aug 1, 2024, 12:47 AM CDT for Steele County, Minnesota. It was in force for 88 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
- Aug 1, 2024, 12:47 AM CDT (05:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2024, 2:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 88 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
County Steele County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 895 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -190 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1339 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
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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 Aug 1, 12:34 AM CDT, 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 1, 12:34 AM CDT, 13 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN 326 PM CDT Wed Jul 31 2024 MNZ041>045-047>070-073>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ014>016-023>028- 012030- Douglas-Todd-Morrison-Mille Lacs-Kanabec-Stevens-Pope-Stearns- Benton-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- 326 PM CDT Wed Jul 31 2024 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of central and southern Minnesota, and west central Wisconsin. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Thunderstorms are expected early this evening, with damaging wind gusts expected in the strongest storms. The potential for destructive winds is highest across western and central Minnesota, but the chance for severe weather still exists into eastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN spotter activation will likely be needed this afternoon & evening.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 10:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 31, 7:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Le Sueur | 33 min |
| Jul 31, 7:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 42 min |
| Jul 31, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Renville, Yellow Medicine | 47 min |
| Jul 31, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Waseca | 22 min |
| Jul 31, 7:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Kandiyohi | 39 min |
| Jul 31, 8:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Renville | 34 min |
| Jul 31, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Redwood, Renville, Sibley | 40 min |
| Jul 31, 8:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Redwood | 34 min |
| Jul 31, 8:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Steele, Waseca | 36 min |
| Jul 31, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Sibley | 48 min |
| Jul 31, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown | 24 min |
| Jul 31, 9:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Nicollet, Watonwan | 43 min |
| Jul 31, 9:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Martin | 37 min |
| Jul 31, 9:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Sibley | 46 min |
| Jul 31, 10:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Martin | 34 min |
| Jul 31, 10:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault | 39 min |
| Jul 31, 10:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Nicollet | 28 min |
| Jul 31, 11:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Faribault, Le Sueur, Waseca | 39 min |
| Jul 31, 11:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Steele | 30 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.