Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 262, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 29, 2004, 6:33 PM CDT for Goodhue County, Minnesota. It was in force for 42 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
- Oct 29, 2004, 6:33 PM CDT (23:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 29, 2004, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Goodhue County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 29, 3:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 1021 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 508 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 292333 SVRMPX MNC049-300015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 633 PM CDT FRI OCT 29 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GOODHUE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 630 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 28 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RED WING...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF MANTORVILLE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RED WING. ZUMBROTA. WANAMINGO. GOODHUE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. 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 4421 9301 4412 9279 4444 9224 4467 9270 $$ MBK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 29, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Scott | 24 min |
| Oct 29, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 35 min |
| Oct 29, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Scott | 26 min |
| Oct 29, 5:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Benton, Morrison | 52 min |
| Oct 29, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka | 33 min |
| Oct 29, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Isanti | 61 min |
| Oct 29, 6:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Isanti | 27 min |
| Oct 29, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Steele | 20 min |
| Oct 29, 6:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Isanti | 29 min |
| Oct 29, 6:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kanabec | 22 min |
| Oct 29, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chisago | 42 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.