Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 243, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 2004, 4:25 PM CDT for Kandiyohi County, Stevens County, Minnesota. It was in force for 65 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, 4:25 PM CDT (21:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2004, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Kandiyohi County, MN, Stevens County, MN
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 177 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -409 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1929 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 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 252125
SVRMPX
MNC149-252230-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
424 PM CDT WED AUG 25 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
STEVENS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 530 PM CDT
* AT 421 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MORRIS...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHEAST
OF ORTONVILLE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MORRIS.
CHOKIO.
ALBERTA.
DONNELLY.
LAT...LON 4545 9645 4541 9623 4544 9578 4574 9576
4575 9622
$$1 follow-up statement
000 WUUS53 KMPX 252125 RRA SVRMPX MNC067-252230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 425 PM CDT WED AUG 25 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KANDIYOHI COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 425 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WILLMAR...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF GRANITE FALLS...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... PRINSBURG. RAYMOND. PRIAM. SVEA. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4490 9525 4490 9509 4520 9493 4522 9523 $$
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, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Renville | 58 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
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.