Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 2004, 3:19 AM CDT for Redwood County, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. It was in force for 56 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
- Jul 13, 2004, 3:19 AM CDT (08:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2004, 4:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Redwood County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 1267 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1215 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 130819 SVRMPX MNC127-173-130915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 318 AM CDT TUE JUL 13 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA REDWOOD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 415 AM CDT * AT 311 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GRANITE FALLS...OR ABOUT OVER GRANITE FALLS...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... GRANITE FALLS. LAT...LON 4486 9559 4478 9574 4423 9555 4432 9489 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison, Todd | 90 min |
| Jul 13, 1:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Martin | 56 min |
| Jul 13, 1:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison, Todd | 51 min |
| Jul 13, 2:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 54 min |
| Jul 13, 4:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood, Yellow Medicine | 25 min |
| Jul 13, 4:08 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Redwood, Yellow Medicine | 22 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.