Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 127, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2004, 5:20 PM CDT for Anoka County, Washington County, Minnesota. It was in force for 40 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, 5:20 PM CDT (22:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2004, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Anoka County, MN, Washington County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
552
WUUS53 KMPX 052220
SVRMPX
MNC003-163-052300-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
517 PM CDT SAT JUN 5 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHEAST ANOKA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 600 PM CDT
* AT 517 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60
MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM COOPERS
CORNER...TO STACY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...FOREST LAKE...MARINE ON ST.
CROIX...EAST BETHEL...SCANDIA...AND COOPERS CORNER.
TREES HAVE BEEN DOWNED WITH THESE STORMS IN CHISAGO COUNTY.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
LAT...LON 4541 9303 4541 9310 4541 9321 4515 9311
4515 9286 4518 9274 4530 9277 4530 9303
$$
BINAUThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kanabec | 37 min |
| Jun 5, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 29 min |
| Jun 5, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood | 27 min |
| Jun 5, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago | 47 min |
| Jun 5, 4:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chisago | 42 min |
| Jun 5, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood | 42 min |
| Jun 5, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago | 40 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004
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.