Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 216, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2004, 3:56 AM CDT for Douglas County, Todd County, Minnesota. It was in force for 79 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
- Aug 2, 2004, 3:56 AM CDT (08:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2004, 5:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 79 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Douglas County, MN, Todd County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 196 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 3:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 2637 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 947 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS53 KMPX 020856
SVRMPX
MNC041-153-021015-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
356 AM CDT MON AUG 2 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
TODD COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
DOUGLAS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 515 AM CDT
* AT 355 AM 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 43 MILES
NORTHWEST OF STAPLES TO 45 MILES WEST OF STAPLES ...OR ALONG A
LINE EXTENDING FROM 17 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DETROIT LAKES TO 18
MILES NORTHEAST OF FERGUS FALLS...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
STAPLES.
BERTHA.
HEWITT.
CARLOS.
MILLERVILLE.
LAT...LON 4671 9571 4643 9587 4628 9601 4609 9631
4593 9513 4611 9483 4626 9468 4654 9452
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 4:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Douglas, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Stearns, Todd | 80 min |
| Aug 2, 6:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 54 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.