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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 245, NWS Twin Cities, MN

August 25, 2004Pope County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 2004, 6:24 PM CDT for Pope County, Minnesota. It was in force for 36 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, 6:24 PM CDT (23:24 UTC)
Expired: Aug 25, 2004, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pope County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 176 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:24 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 173 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 252324
SVRMPX
MNC121-260000-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  POPE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 620 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM     
  WAS LOCATED 9 MILES WEST OF GLENWOOD...NEAR LOWRY...MOVING         
  NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  GLENWOOD.
  LOWRY.
  VILLARD. 

DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED SOME WEAK ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM.
WHILE NOT IMMEDIATELY LIKELY...A TORNADO MAY STILL DEVELOP. IF A
TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A
STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.

LAT...LON 4557 9572 4556 9517 4575 9518 4576 9574

$$

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, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	McLeod	64 min
Aug 25, 4:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi	32 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.