Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2004, 1:03 AM CDT for Faribault County, Minnesota. It was in force for 42 min. 2 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
- May 8, 2004, 1:03 AM CDT (06:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2004, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Faribault County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:03 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 1:10 AM CDT | HAIL 1 | 4 Ne Winnebago, MN | |
| May 8, 1:55 AM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 4 Sw 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2481 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 375 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
587
WUUS53 KMPX 080603
SVRMPX
MNC043-080645-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
103 AM CDT SAT MAY 8 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
FARIBAULT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 145 AM CDT
* AT 1258 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
WINNEBAGO...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF BLUE EARTH...AND MOVING
EAST AT 40 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
DELAVAN.
EASTON.
MINNESOTA LAKE.
WELLS.
WINNEBAGO.
LAT...LON 4382 9423 4382 9393 4383 9366 4368 9366
4368 9384 4367 9423
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 12:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Martin, Watonwan | 44 min |
| May 8, 12:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Waseca | 39 min |
| May 8, 1:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue, Steele | 39 min |
| May 8, 1:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Martin | 37 min |
| May 8, 1:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn | 52 min |
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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.