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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 5, 2004Redwood County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2004, 4:33 PM CDT for Redwood County, Minnesota. It was in force for 27 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
Jun 5, 2004, 4:33 PM CDT (21:33 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2004, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Redwood County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:37 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 135 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 2004-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2004-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 320 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1287 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
320 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
231 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.2

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The text

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

417 
WUUS53 KMPX 052133
SVRMPX
MNC127-052200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
433 PM CDT SAT JUN 5 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  REDWOOD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 430 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF VESTA...OR ABOUT 11 MILES WEST OF REDWOOD FALLS...AND
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  CLEMENTS.
  SEAFORTH.
  VESTA.
  WABASSO.
  WANDA.

LAT...LON 4458 9520 4450 9550 4424 9526 4438 9494

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 3:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXKanabec37 min
Jun 5, 4:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXYellow Medicine29 min
Jun 5, 4:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXChisago47 min
Jun 5, 4:48 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXChisago42 min
Jun 5, 5:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRedwood42 min
Jun 5, 5:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXAnoka, Washington40 min
Jun 5, 5:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXChisago40 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.