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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 163, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 12, 2004Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2004, 9:16 PM CDT for Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. It was in force for 59 min. 1 report 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 12, 2004, 9:16 PM CDT (02:16 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2004, 10:15 PM CDT
In force
59 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), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:15 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 12, 9:20 PM CDTHAIL 1.51 Nw Porter, MN

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 189 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2004-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 334 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2004-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
334 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2209 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
26 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.

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 130216
SVRMPX
MNC173-130315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
916 PM CDT SAT JUN 12 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT

* AT 911 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  PORTER...OR ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF MARSHALL...AND MOVING EAST
  AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...   HANLEY FALLS.
  HAZEL RUN.
  PORTER.
  ST LEO.
  SPRING CREEK.

LAT...LON 4465 9638 4453 9619 4460 9551 4480 9571

$$
NAISTAT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 8:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXLac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine56 min
Jun 12, 8:39 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXYellow Medicine36 min
Jun 12, 9:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXAnoka, Hennepin, Ramsey23 min
Jun 12, 9:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXLac qui Parle, Swift65 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.