Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2004, 4:23 AM CDT for Stearns County, Minnesota. It was in force for 37 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 8, 2004, 4:23 AM CDT (09:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2004, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Stearns County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 100 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.
056 WUUS53 KMPX 080923 SVRMPX MNC145-081000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 420 AM CDT TUE JUN 8 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... STEARNS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 500 AM CDT * AT 416 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 2 MILES SOUTH OF PAYNESVILLE...AND MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ST NICHOLAS. COLD SPRING. LAT...LON 4542 9477 4534 9473 4536 9435 4547 9443 $$ AZ
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, 12:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 54 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 |
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.