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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 225, NWS Twin Cities, MN

August 8, 2004Faribault County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2004, 3:05 PM CDT for Faribault County, Minnesota. It was in force for 40 min. 2 reports 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
Aug 8, 2004, 3:05 PM CDT (20:05 UTC)
Expired
Aug 8, 2004, 3:45 PM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Faribault County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:07 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
Aug 8, 3:20 PM CDTHAIL 0.75Bricelyn, MN
Aug 8, 3:20 PM CDTHAIL 0.75Bricelyn, 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 137 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 12:00Z on 2004-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 362 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2004-08-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 61 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
362 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-202 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1170 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
123 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.

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 082005
SVRMPX
MNC043-082045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
304 PM CDT SUN AUG 8 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  FARIBAULT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 345 PM CDT

* AT 259 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS
  LOCATED NEAR FROST...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BLUE EARTH...
  AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  BRICELYN.
  FROST.
  KIESTER.
  WALTERS.
  ELMORE.
  BARODA.
  BRUSH CREEK.

LAT...LON 4372 9404 4350 9401 4352 9366 4373 9366

$$

MBK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 5:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXIsanti, Sherburne55 min
Aug 8, 5:42 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXAnoka, Isanti, Sherburne63 min
Aug 8, 6:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXChisago53 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.