Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 22, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2004, 4:42 PM CDT for Faribault County, Minnesota. It was in force for 33 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
- Jun 11, 2004, 4:42 PM CDT (21:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2004, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 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), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 4:48 PM CDT | TORNADO | 3 Nw Easton, MN | ON GROUND ABOUT TWO MILES. SCATTERED TREES BROKEN. SHED MISSING. |
| Jun 11, 4:48 PM CDT | TORNADO | 3 Nw Easton, MN | ON GROUND ABOUT TWO MILES. SCATTERED TREES BROKEN. SHED MISSING. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 1:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 572 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KMPX 112142 TORMPX MNC043-112215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 442 PM CDT FRI JUN 11 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... FARIBAULT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 515 PM CDT * AT 439 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO...8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BLUE EARTH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BLUE EARTH. ELMORE. PILOT GROVE. FROST. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 4362 9424 4351 9424 4371 9366 4385 9386 $$ MARGRAF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 2:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood | 41 min |
| Jun 11, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 44 min |
| Jun 11, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood | 62 min |
| Jun 11, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Renville | 64 min |
| Jun 11, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, McLeod, Meeker, Renville | 64 min |
| Jun 11, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Martin | 54 min |
| Jun 11, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault | 62 min |
| Jun 11, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sibley | 64 min |
| Jun 11, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth | 40 min |
| Jun 11, 5:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Waseca | 39 min |
| Jun 11, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wright | 59 min |
| Jun 11, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Nicollet | 49 min |
| Jun 11, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Steele | 35 min |
| Jun 11, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Waseca | 44 min |
| Jun 11, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey | 56 min |
| Jun 11, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice | 51 min |
| Jun 11, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 51 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.