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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2004, 5:46 PM CDT for Waseca 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, 5:46 PM CDT (22:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2004, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Waseca County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:47 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 1:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Jun 11, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 112246 SVRMPX MNC161-112330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 543 PM CDT FRI JUN 11 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WASECA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 539 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF WASECA TO 11 MILES SOUTH OF WASECA...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... WASECA. HAIL UP TO 1 INCH CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REPLACED THE TORNADO WARNING THAT HAD BEEN IN EFFECT FOR WASECA COUNTY. LAT...LON 4419 9374 4386 9345 4408 9340 4419 9350 $$ NAISTAT/MARGRAF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 2:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood | 41 min |
| Jun 11, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 44 min |
| Jun 11, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood | 62 min |
| Jun 11, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Renville | 64 min |
| Jun 11, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, McLeod, Meeker, Renville | 64 min |
| Jun 11, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Martin | 54 min |
| Jun 11, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault | 62 min |
| Jun 11, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sibley | 64 min |
| Jun 11, 4:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Faribault | 33 min |
| Jun 11, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth | 40 min |
| Jun 11, 5:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Waseca | 39 min |
| Jun 11, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wright | 59 min |
| Jun 11, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Nicollet | 49 min |
| Jun 11, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Steele | 35 min |
| Jun 11, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey | 56 min |
| Jun 11, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice | 51 min |
| Jun 11, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 51 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.