Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at May 9, 2004, 4:13 PM CDT for Meeker County, Stearns County, Minnesota. It was in force for 47 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, 4:13 PM CDT (21:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2004, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 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), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 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, 4:13 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 | |
| May 9, 4:33 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 5 Sw Litchfield, MN | TWO TURKEY BARNS MINORLY DAMAGED ALONG ROUTE 23 NEAR LONG LAKE. |
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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
WFUS53 KMPX 092113
TORMPX
MNC093-145-092200-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
412 PM CDT SUN MAY 9 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
MEEKER COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LITCHFIELD
STEARNS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 500 PM CDT
* AT 409 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED STORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO...13 MILES WEST OF LITCHFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
THE OTHER STORM CAPABLE OR PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS 13 MILES WEST
OF LITCHFIELD.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LITCHFIELD.
PAYNESVILLE.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR
SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA AND NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN.
LAT...LON 4525 9475 4508 9475 4492 9470 4498 9452
4500 9431 4543 9441 4539 9474
$$The 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, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker, Stearns | 55 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.