Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2004, 4:05 PM CDT for Meeker County, Stearns County, Minnesota. It was in force for 55 min. 9 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 9, 2004, 4:05 PM CDT (21:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2004, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Meeker County, MN, Stearns County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:05 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 9, 4:10 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 5 Sw Watkins, MN | FISH HOUSE BLOWN OVER AND ROLLED 50 FEET. |
| May 9, 4:13 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Eden Valley, MN | |
| May 9, 4:15 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 Se Paynesville, MN | 10 INCH DIAMETER TREE SNAPPED IN HALF |
| May 9, 4:18 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Grove City, MN | |
| May 9, 4:20 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 5 N Litchfield, MN | |
| May 9, 4:21 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Litchfield, MN | |
| May 9, 4:29 PM CDT | TORNADO | 3 S Watkins, MN | PUBLIC REPORT OF TORNADO CROSSING PASTURE ALONG ROUTE 17 SOUTH OF WATKINS. PRELIMINARY TORNADO PENDING INVESTIGATION. |
| May 9, 4:30 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Watkins, MN | TREES WERE DOWNED. |
| May 9, 4:30 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Watkins, 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 9, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 9, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -483 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 802 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS53 KMPX 092105
SVRMPX
MNC093-145-092200-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
404 PM CDT SUN MAY 9 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
MEEKER COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LITCHFIELD
STEARNS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 500 PM CDT
* AT 401 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THESE STORMS WERE
LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 27 MILES NORTH OF LITCHFIELD TO
13 MILES NORTHWEST OF LITCHFIELD...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING
FROM 19 MILES WEST OF ST CLOUD...TO 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF
LITCHFIELD...AND MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LITCHFIELD.
AT 403 PM...QUARTER SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN PAYNESVILLE.
LAT...LON 4560 9460 4514 9475 4501 9433 4529 9436
4543 9405
$$
RJN/JPRThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 11:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 56 min |
| May 9, 1:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope, Stevens | 67 min |
| May 9, 2:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Swift | 59 min |
| May 9, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope | 31 min |
| May 9, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Stearns | 54 min |
| May 9, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Swift | 31 min |
| May 9, 3:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 29 min |
| May 9, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sherburne, Wright | 54 min |
| May 9, 3:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 31 min |
| May 9, 4:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Meeker, Stearns | 47 min |
| May 9, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Hennepin, Wright | 65 min |
| May 9, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Anoka, Sherburne, Wright | 26 min |
| May 9, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod | 47 min |
| May 9, 5:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Carver, Hennepin | 49 min |
| May 9, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka | 42 min |
| May 9, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago, Isanti | 64 min |
| May 9, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sibley | 44 min |
| May 9, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Ramsey, Washington | 58 min |
| May 9, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod | 42 min |
| May 9, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Scott | 57 min |
| May 9, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sibley | 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.