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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 15, 2004Redwood County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2004, 10:44 PM CDT for Redwood County, Minnesota. It was in force for 31 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 15, 2004, 10:44 PM CDT (03:44 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2004, 11:15 PM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Redwood County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:43 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, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 122 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 2004-06-16Temperature 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 2004-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 180 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2164 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
180 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
406 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

475 
WUUS53 KMPX 160344
SVRMPX
MNC127-160415-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1044 PM CDT TUE JUN 15 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  REDWOOD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 1115 PM CDT

* AT 1035 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL.DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.
  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR REDWOOD FALLS...OR ABOUT OVER REDWOOD
  FALLS...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...   REDWOOD FALLS.

LAT...LON 4460 9515 4455 9503 4451 9489 4445 9488
      4444 9503 4443 9504 4443 9516 4457 9520
      4459 9520

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 10:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXKandiyohi, Meeker, Renville41 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.