Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 131, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2004, 12:21 AM CDT for Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. It was in force for 54 min. 3 reports 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 8, 2004, 12:21 AM CDT (05:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2004, 1:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kandiyohi County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:22 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 8, 12:50 AM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 5 N Spicer, MN | LARGE BRANCHES DOWN |
| Jun 8, 12:50 AM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 5 N Spicer, MN | LARGE BRANCHES DOWN |
| Jun 8, 12:50 AM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 5 N Spicer, MN | LARGE BRANCHES DOWN |
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 7, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 1588 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2423 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
143 WUUS53 KMPX 080521 SVRMPX MNC067-080615- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1220 AM CDT TUE JUN 8 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KANDIYOHI COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 115 AM CDT * AT 1218 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF WILLMAR...AND MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... WILLMAR. SUNBURG. NEW LONDON. ROSELAND. BLOMKEST. LAT...LON 4540 9526 4490 9523 4491 9478 4540 9478 $$ MBK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 11:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Swift | 57 min |
| Jun 8, 12:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 47 min |
| Jun 8, 12:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker, Stearns | 59 min |
| Jun 8, 1:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wright | 61 min |
| Jun 8, 1:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sherburne | 46 min |
| Jun 8, 1:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Carver, Hennepin | 71 min |
| Jun 8, 1:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Isanti, Mille Lacs | 66 min |
| Jun 8, 2:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Swift | 29 min |
| Jun 8, 2:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kanabec | 57 min |
| Jun 8, 2:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 47 min |
| Jun 8, 2:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker | 52 min |
| Jun 8, 3:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wright | 60 min |
| Jun 8, 4:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 37 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.