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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 244, NWS Twin Cities, MN

August 25, 2004McLeod County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 2004, 4:56 PM CDT for McLeod County, Minnesota. It was in force for 64 min. 1 report 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 25, 2004, 4:56 PM CDT (21:56 UTC)
Expired: Aug 25, 2004, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County McLeod County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 25, 5:14 PM CDT	HAIL 0.75	Hutchinson, 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 56 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 252156
SVRMPX
MNC085-252300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
456 PM CDT WED AUG 25 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MCLEOD COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 451 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS
  LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HUTCHINSON...AND MOVING NORTH AT 20
  MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  GLENCOE.
  HUTCHINSON.
  LESTER PRAIRIE.

LAT...LON 4478 9446 4471 9418 4496 9402 4497 9443

$$

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, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi, Stevens	65 min
Aug 25, 4:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi	23 min
Aug 25, 4:58 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.