Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 7, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2004, 6:07 PM CDT for Dodge County, Minnesota. It was in force for 53 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 2004, 6:07 PM CDT (23:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2004, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Dodge County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 6:30 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Hayfield, MN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 1:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Jun 11, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 572 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KARX 112307
TORARX
MNC039-120000-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
606 PM CDT FRI JUN 11 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
DODGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 700 PM CDT
* AT 606 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A TORNADO
10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HIGHWAY 30 AND COUNTY 3...OR ABOUT 12 MILES
NORTHEAST OF HAYWARD. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
COUNTY ROADS 5 AND 6 AROUND 625 PM CDT...
HAYFIELD AND HIGHWAY 14 AND COUNTY 5 AROUND 630 PM CDT...
COUNTY ROADS 6 AND 9 AND HIGHWAY 56 AND COUNTY 6 AROUND 635...
WASIOJA AND EDEN AROUND 640 PM CDT...
A TORNADO IS BEING DETECTED BY RADAR. THIS MEANS THAT A TORNADO MAY
NOT BE OCCURRING WHEN THE WARNING IS ISSUED...BUT ONE IS EXPECTED TO
DEVELOP. TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS
LAT...LON 4388 9304 4385 9300 4387 9270 4410 9268
4420 9289
$$
SHEAThe office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Dodge | 75 min |
| Jun 11, 5:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Fillmore, Mower | 67 min |
| Jun 11, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Olmsted | 65 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.