Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 242, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 2004, 3:32 PM CDT for Chippewa County, Renville County, Minnesota. It was in force for 58 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 25, 2004, 3:32 PM CDT (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2004, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Chippewa County, MN, Renville County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:35 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 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
- 257 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 892 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 252032 SVRMPX MNC023-129-252130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 332 PM CDT WED AUG 25 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CHIPPEWA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA RENVILLE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 430 PM CDT * AT 331 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MINNESOTA FALLS...OR ABOUT OVER GRANITE FALLS...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... CLARA CITY. MAYNARD. SACRED HEART. ASBURY. GLUEK. MINNESOTA FALLS. 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 4488 9567 4466 9526 4503 9526 4514 9567 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 63 min |
| Aug 25, 3:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 59 min |
| Aug 25, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Stevens | 65 min |
| Aug 25, 4:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 23 min |
| Aug 25, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod | 64 min |
| Aug 25, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 32 min |
| Aug 25, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope | 36 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.