During the afternoon of Wednesday, June 5th, thunderstorms developed across central Minnesota, and moved slowly southeast across southern Minnesota. Although no severe weather developed, one storm produced a brief funnel cloud near Glencoe, Minnesota.
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During the afternoon of Wednesday, June 5th, thunderstorms developed across central Minnesota, and moved slowly southeast across southern Minnesota. Although no severe weather developed, one storm produced a brief funnel cloud near Glencoe, Minnesota. It was photographed by two individuals and relayed to the NWS by TV stations.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jun 5, 6:09 AM CST, 5 hours 56 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 709 AM CDT WED JUN 5 2013 .SHORT TERM...(TODAY AND TONIGHT) ISSUED AT 328 AM CDT WED JUN 5 2013 EARLY MORNING WATER VAPOR IMAGERY TOGETHER WITH 500MB HEIGHTS AND WINDS SHOWS A MATURE MCS EMBEDDED IN ZONAL FLOW RACING EASTWARD ACROSS KANSAS. FURTHER NORTH A FILLING UPPER LEVEL LOW WAS CENTERED OVER THE MN/DAKOTA BORDER...WITH A JET MAX ON THE SOUTHERN SIDE OF THIS LOW. SPC MESOANALYSIS IDENTIFIED A 100KT AT 300MB WITHIN THIS SPEED MAX. AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS CENTERED ACROSS NORTHERN MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN ALONG THE EAST/WEST ORIENTED H850 FRONTAL BOUNDARY. LARGE SCALE UPPER LEVEL ASCENT TOGETHER WEAK FRONTOGENESIS WERE THE TWO FORCING MECHANISMS BEHIND THE SHALLOW CONVECTION...DESPITE MLCAPE VALUES OF LESS THAN 100J/KG. TODAY THE OCCLUDED SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE TO FILL AS IT SLIDES EAST SOUTHEASTWARD ACROSS THE CWA. HOWEVER A DRY SLOT OVER EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA WILL ROTATE OVER SOUTHERN MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN PROMOTING SOME SURFACE HEATING AND INSTABILITY. MEANWHILE DYNAMIC DESTABILIZATION WILL ALSO TAKE PLACE ACROSS EASTERN MN AND WESTERN WI AS THE COLD CORE LOW STEEPENS THE MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES. BUFR FORECAST SOUNDINGS OF THE NAM 05.00Z SHOW MODEST AFTERNOON SBCAPE VALUES OF 100-200J/KG. PREVIOUSLY THERE WAS SOME CONCERN THAT A FEW WEAK TORNADOES COULD DEVELOP DURING THE AFTERNOON GIVEN THE DEEP LAYER SHEAR AND CYCLONICALLY CURVED LOW LEVEL HODOGRAPHS. HOWEVER LATEST GUIDANCE SHOWS THE WIND PROFILES ARE MUCH MORE LINEAR AND WEAKER. STILL EXPECTING A FEW AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE MN/WI BORDER AS INDICATED BY THE LAST FEW RUNS OF THE HOPWRF...WITH SMALL HAIL POSSIBLE CONSIDERING 0C LEVELS WILL BE AROUND 7500FT. THESE STORM WILL MOVE EASTWARD ENDING THE THREAT FOR THUNDER...BUT LINGERING SHOWERS AND LOW CLOUDS WILL PERSIST OVERNIGHT. FORECAST SOUNDINGS SHOW MOIST BOUNDARY LAYER...WHICH EXPLAINS THE INCREASING RH IN THE 0-0.5KM LAYER THURSDAY MORNING. WITH LIGHT NORTHEASTERLY WINDS COULD SEE SOME FOG DEVELOP...MAINLY AS THE STRATUS DECK LOWERS. HAD A FEW HALF/QUARTER MILE REPORTS IN NORTH DAKOTA THIS MORNING...SO DECIDED TO ADD PATCHY FOG TO THE GRIDS. .LONG TERM...(THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY) ISSUED AT 328 AM CDT WED JUN 5 2013 THE LOW WILL BE WELL TO THE SOUTHEAST AT THE START OF THE PERIOD...BUT CYCLONIC FLOW IN PLACE WILL FACILITATE ADDITIONAL SHOWER DEVELOPMENT THURSDAY AFTERNOON WITH DAYTIME HEATING. MAINTAINED LOW POPS FOR THURSDAY WITH HIGHS CONTINUING WELL BELOW AVERAGE. WEAK SURFACE HIGH OVER THE GREAT LAKES AND MS VALLEY WILL REMAIN ABOUT STATIONARY AS A FEATURE OF TROPICAL ORIGIN SKIRTS UP THE EAST COAST. DRY AND COOL CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST FOR THE REGION FRIDAY/FRIDAY NIGHT. LOW PRESSURE DEVELOPING ON THE NWRN FRINGE OF THE RIDGE OVER THE ROCKIES WILL TRACK EAST ALONG THE CANADIAN BORDER SATURDAY. MOISTURE RETURN AHEAD OF THIS FEATURE IS LESS THAN IMPRESSIVE GIVEN THE ERRATIC FLOW FROM THE GULF...BUT THERE SHOULD BE ENOUGH TO GENERATE A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE COLD FRONT LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND SATURDAY NIGHT. ECMWF DEPICTION OF THIS LOW IS QUITE A BIT DIFFERENT FROM THE GFS/GFS ENSEMBLE/GEM...BUT EVEN IT NOW HAS THIS BAND OF SHOWERS PUSHING THROUGH. RAISED POPS INTO THE LIKELY CATEGORY SATURDAY NIGHT. SEVERE POTENTIAL APPEARS LOW GIVEN LACK OF MOISTURE/INSTABILITY AND MID LEVEL WINDS. GENERAL TROUGHINESS WILL CONTINUE INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK ACROSS THE UPPER MIDWEST...HOWEVER THE SOUTHWESTERN RIDGE WILL BEGIN TO BUILD EAST INTO THE SOUTHERN PLAINS. THIS MAY BEGIN TO SET UP A RING OF FIRE TYPE PATTERN AND INCREASED SEVERE WEATHER CHANCES BEGINNING TUESDAY AND IMPACTING MAINLY WRN/SRN MN THROUGH MIDWEEK. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN AT OR SLIGHTLY BELOW AVERAGE THROUGH THE PERIOD...BUT SHOULD FINALLY APPROACH 80 AGAIN BEYOND MONDAY. && .AVIATION...(FOR THE 12Z TAFS THROUGH 12Z THURSDAY MORNING) ISSUED AT 635 AM CDT WED JUN 5 2013 UPPER LOW OVER NERN SD WILL TRACK ESE THROUGH THE DAY. LOW CLOUDS WILL PERSIST NORTH OF THE LOW THROUGH THE PERIOD. SOUTH OF THE LOW...VFR CIGS EXPECTED TODAY FOLLOWED BY A DETERIORATION THIS EVENING AS LOW CLOUDS WRAP AROUND ON THE BACKSIDE OF THE SYSTEM. SCATTERED SHOWERS WILL ALSO REDEVELOP LATER THIS MORNING ACROSS CENTRAL MN/WRN WI...LEADING TO SOME BRIEF REDUCTIONS IN VIS. KMSP...THE TERMINAL WILL BE CLOSE TO THE DRY SLOT LATE THIS MORNING AND EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. THEREFORE...COULD SEE IMPROVING CONDITIONS FOR A TIME UNTIL THE LOW PASSES BY AND IFR CIGS RETURN THIS EVENING. /OUTLOOK FOR KMSP/ THU...MVFR CIGS. WIND NNE 5-10KTS. FRI...VFR WITH MVFR CIGS POSSIBLE. WINDS E 5KTS. SAT...VFR WITH MVFR CIGS/SHOWERS/TSRA POSSIBLE. WINDS SE 10KTS. && .MPX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MN...NONE. WI...NONE. && SHORT TERM...JRB LONG TERM...BORGHOFF AVIATION...BORGHOFF
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1248 PM CDT WED JUN 5 2013 MNZ041>045-047>070-073>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ014>016-023>028- 061200- 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- 1248 PM CDT WED JUN 5 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MINNESOTA... AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED RAIN SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED TODAY. HOWEVER... ELEVATED WINDS ALOFT ASSOCIATED WITH THESE SHOWERS ARE CONDUCIVE TO THE FORMATION OF FUNNEL CLOUDS...ESPECIALLY FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN MINNESOTA INTO WESTERN WISCONSIN. THESE TYPES OF FUNNEL CLOUDS RARELY FORM TORNADOES...BUT IF ANY TORNADOES DID FORM...THEY WOULD BE SHORT-LIVED AND WEAK. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER APPEARS LOW AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT. HOWEVER...ANY REPORTS OF FUNNEL CLOUDS WOULD BE MOST APPRECIATED.
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 47 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:07 UTC.
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
Two local observers near Glencoe, captured a photo of a funnel cloud early afternoon of Wednesday, June 5th.
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