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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Twin Cities, MN

April 18, 2004Blue Earth County, Faribault County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 18, 2004, 7:22 PM CDT for Blue Earth County, Faribault County, Minnesota. It was in force for 53 min. 3 reports 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: Apr 18, 2004, 7:22 PM CDT (00:22 UTC)
Expired: Apr 18, 2004, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Blue Earth County, MN, Faribault County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:23 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 18, 7:22 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 58	5 Sw Lake Crystal, MN
Apr 18, 7:45 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	1 N Good Thunder, MN	ROOF PARTIALLY LIFTED OFF. MINOR HOUSE DAMAGE.
Apr 18, 8:10 PM CDT	HAIL 0.75	Winnebago, MN

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 18, 4:40 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 112 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: 671 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2341 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 244 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 328 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.7

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The text

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

761 
WUUS53 KMPX 190022
SVRMPX
MNC013-043-190115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
721 PM CDT SUN APR 18 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BLUE EARTH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  FARIBAULT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 721 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING
  WINDS 18 MILES WEST OF VERNON CENTER...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTHEAST
  OF ST JAMES...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  LAKE CRYSTAL.
  GOOD THUNDER.
  AMBOY.
  WINNEBAGO.
  BLUE EARTH.
  FROST.
  MANKATO.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING.

WIND GUSTS TO 75 ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LAT...LON 4406 9435 4374 9423 4359 9370 4407 9384

$$

RAH/SEB

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 18, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chisago	43 min
Apr 18, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Nicollet	58 min
Apr 18, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota, Scott	63 min
Apr 18, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Ramsey, Washington	47 min
Apr 18, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Sibley	41 min
Apr 18, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Martin	61 min
Apr 18, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver	42 min
Apr 18, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Le Sueur, Rice	60 min
Apr 18, 7:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Scott	36 min
Apr 18, 8:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Dakota	26 min
Apr 18, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Faribault, Freeborn, Steele, Waseca	58 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.