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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 143, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 8, 2004Blue Earth County, Brown County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2004, 8:00 PM CDT for Blue Earth County, Brown County, Minnesota. It was in force for 60 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, 8:00 PM CDT (01:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 2004, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:02 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 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 105 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 00:00Z on 2004-06-09Temperature 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 00:00Z on 2004-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 74 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1194 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
228 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.2

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The text

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

327 
WUUS53 KMPX 090100
SVRMPX
MNC013-015-090200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
800 PM CDT TUE JUN 8 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN BROWN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  BLUE EARTH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 758 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS
  LOCATED 22 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SLEEPY EYE...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTH
  OF NEW ULM...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...   
  SLEEPY EYE.
  MANKATO.
  HANSKA.
  LAKE CRYSTAL.
  GOOD THUNDER.

LAT...LON 4440 9482 4411 9484 4413 9440 4395 9435
      4416 9408

$$
MBK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 8:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXFaribault, Freeborn62 min
Jun 9, 1:57 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMPXBlue Earth, Nicollet5 hr

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.