Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 176, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 2004, 3:47 PM CDT for McLeod County, Minnesota. It was in force for 28 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 30, 2004, 3:47 PM CDT (20:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 2004, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County McLeod County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 3:50 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Glencoe, MN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 55 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
- 1785 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
339
WUUS53 KMPX 302047
SVRMPX
MNC085-302115-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
346 PM CDT WED JUN 30 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEAST MCLEOD COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 415 PM CDT
* AT 345 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GLENCOE...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTH OF
HUTCHINSON...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
GLENCOE.
THIS IS AN EXTENSION OF THE PREVIOUS WARNING.
TREES WERE DOWNED WITH THIS STORM SOUTH OF HUTCHINSON AND NEAR
SUMTER.
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 4468 9439 4470 9439 4480 9424 4473 9402
4472 9420 4472 9421 4472 9425 4471 9426
4463 9426 4463 9434
$$
BINAUThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Meeker, Renville | 65 min |
| Jun 30, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wright | 39 min |
| Jun 30, 3:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sibley | 57 min |
| Jun 30, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 62 min |
| Jun 30, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Ramsey | 45 min |
| Jun 30, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Washington | 47 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.