Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 128, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2004, 5:35 PM CDT for Chisago County, Minnesota; Polk County, Wisconsin. 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, 5:35 PM CDT (22:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2004, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Chisago County, MN, Polk County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:36 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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 91 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.
360 WUUS53 KMPX 052235 SVRMPX MNC025-WIC095-052315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 534 PM CDT SAT JUN 5 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CHISAGO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA WESTERN POLK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST WISCONSIN * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 534 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LINDSTROM...OR ABOUT 20 MILES WEST OF BALSAM LAKE...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...TAYLORS FALLS...OSCEOLA...DRESSER...LINDSTROM...AND WYOMING. DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED SOME ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM. WHILE NOT IMMEDIATELY LIKELY...A TORNADO MAY STILL DEVELOP. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. THESE STORMS HAVE DOWNED TREES IN CENTRAL CHISAGO COUNTY NEAR BRANCH. LAT...LON 4556 9280 4542 9301 4522 9272 4522 9233 $$ BINAU
The 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, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Washington | 40 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 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.