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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Sep 19, 2025, 4:24 PM CDT for Ramsey County, Minnesota. It was in force for 66 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
- Sep 19, 2025, 4:24 PM CDT (21:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 19, 2025, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
County Ramsey County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 400 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 778 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>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 Sep 19, 4:12 PM CDT, 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 19, 4:12 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 19, 2:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN 235 PM CDT Fri Sep 19 2025 MNZ041>045-047>070-073>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ014>016-023>028- 201945- 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- 235 PM CDT Fri Sep 19 2025 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of central and southern Minnesota, and west central Wisconsin. .DAY ONE...Tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN spotter activation will not be needed.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 19, 4:24 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
424 PM CDT Fri Sep 19 2025
MNC003-037-053-123-163-192230-
Hennepin-Dakota-Anoka-Washington-Ramsey-
424 PM CDT Fri Sep 19 2025
...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING EXPECTED...
Thunderstorms with heavy rain will cause minor flooding in the
following counties...
Hennepin...Dakota...Anoka...Washington...Ramsey...
* Until 530 PM CDT.
* At 423 PM CDT, Doppler radar and automated rain gauges indicated
heavy rain due to thunderstorms. This will cause urban and small
stream flooding in the area. One to two inches of rain has already
fallen.
* Some locations that will experience minor flooding include...
Minneapolis, St. Paul, Brooklyn Park, Eagan, Woodbury, Maple Grove,
Coon Rapids, Blaine, Maplewood, Cottage Grove, Inver Grove Heights,
and Roseville.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Excessive runoff from heavy rainfall will cause flooding of small
creeks and streams, urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses as
well as other drainage areas and low lying spots.
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LAT...LON 4494 9293 4468 9295 4488 9321 4517 9343
4523 9324
NDCNearby
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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.