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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 146, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 11, 2004Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2004, 2:46 PM CDT for Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. It was in force for 44 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 11, 2004, 2:46 PM CDT (19:46 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 2004, 3:30 PM CDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Yellow Medicine County, MN

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:45 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 153 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 12:00Z on 2004-06-11Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2004-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -29 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
572 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

982 
WUUS53 KMPX 111946
SVRMPX
MNC173-112030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
246 PM CDT FRI JUN 11 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 330 PM CDT

* AT 241 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS
  LOCATED 19 MILES SOUTH OF GRANITE FALLS...OR ABOUT 17 MILES WEST OF
  REDWOOD FALLS...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...   
  GRANITE FALLS.
  ECHO.
  WOOD LAKE.
  HANLEY FALLS.

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 4455 9559 4458 9540 4467 9533 4488 9568

$$
MBK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 2:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRedwood41 min
Jun 11, 2:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRedwood62 min
Jun 11, 3:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRenville64 min
Jun 11, 4:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXKandiyohi, McLeod, Meeker, Renville64 min
Jun 11, 4:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMartin54 min
Jun 11, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXFaribault62 min
Jun 11, 4:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXSibley64 min
Jun 11, 4:42 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXFaribault33 min
Jun 11, 4:50 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXBlue Earth40 min
Jun 11, 5:06 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXWaseca39 min
Jun 11, 5:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXWright59 min
Jun 11, 5:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXNicollet49 min
Jun 11, 5:40 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXFreeborn, Steele35 min
Jun 11, 5:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXWaseca44 min
Jun 11, 6:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXDakota, Hennepin, Ramsey56 min
Jun 11, 6:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRice51 min
Jun 11, 6:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXGoodhue51 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.