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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN

April 28, 2025Kandiyohi County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Apr 28, 2025, 8:28 AM CDT for Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. It was in force for 32 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 28, 2025, 8:28 AM CDT (13:28 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 2025, 9:00 AM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Hail: 0.50 in
Wind: 40

County Kandiyohi County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 137 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: 592 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 323 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 334 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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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 Apr 28, 6:25 AM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 6:25 AM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 28, 3:11 AM CDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 28, 7:44 AM CDT, 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 28, 8:18 AM CDT, 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 28, 8:28 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
Apr 28, 7:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Wright	31 min
Apr 28, 8:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Wright	27 min
Apr 28, 9:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Ramsey, Washington	36 min
Apr 28, 3:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Brown, Watonwan	36 min
Apr 28, 3:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Meeker, Stearns, Wright	36 min
Apr 28, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Brown, Nicollet, Watonwan	45 min
Apr 28, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Martin	67 min
Apr 28, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Benton, Morrison, Stearns	35 min
Apr 28, 4:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Benton, Sherburne, Stearns, Wright	31 min
Apr 28, 4:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	MPX	Blue Earth, Faribault, Martin	36 min
Apr 28, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Rice, Scott, Waseca	37 min
Apr 28, 4:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Benton, Isanti, Mille Lacs, Sherburne	22 min
Apr 28, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Faribault, Freeborn, Martin, Waseca	38 min
Apr 28, 5:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	MPX	Blue Earth, Faribault, Waseca	45 min
Apr 28, 5:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Le Sueur, Rice, Steele, Waseca	25 min
Apr 28, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Faribault, Freeborn, Martin, Steele, Waseca	46 min
Apr 28, 5:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Steele	19 min
Apr 28, 5:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Goodhue, Rice	31 min
Apr 28, 5:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Goodhue, Rice, Steele	34 min
Apr 28, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Goodhue, Rice, Steele	45 min
Apr 28, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Faribault, Freeborn, Steele, Waseca	45 min
Apr 28, 6:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Faribault, Freeborn	36 min
Apr 28, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Goodhue	47 min
Apr 28, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Faribault, Freeborn, Steele	34 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.