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Tornado Warning 63, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

September 5, 2004Jackson County, Minnesota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Sep 5, 2004, 5:33 PM CDT for Jackson County, Minnesota. It was in force for 12 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 5, 2004, 5:33 PM CDT (22:33 UTC)
Expired
Sep 5, 2004, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
12 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Jackson County, MN

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 5, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 168 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2004-09-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 246 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2004-09-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 282 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
246 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
698 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
282 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
329 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KFSD 052233
TORFSD
MNC063-052245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
532 PM CDT SUN SEP 5 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN JACKSON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 530 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES 
  SOUTH OF BERGEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  BERGEN AROUND 540 PM CDT

TAKE COVER NOW. THIS TORNADO IS WRAPPED IN RAIN. IF YOU WAIT TO SEE
OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR
NORTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA.

LAT...LON 4367 9512 4363 9497 4383 9486 4385 9503

$$

CJ

The office that day

Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 5, 3:30 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDNobles45 min
Sep 5, 4:57 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDJackson33 min

Nearby

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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.