Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 26, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2004, 8:39 PM CDT for Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. It was in force for 36 min. 5 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 12, 2004, 8:39 PM CDT (01:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2004, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 8:55 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 4 Sw Canby, MN | |
| Jun 12, 9:07 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Canby, MN | |
| Jun 12, 9:07 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Canby, MN | |
| Jun 12, 9:14 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 90 | 7 W Porter, MN | |
| Jun 12, 9:20 PM CDT | HAIL 1.5 | 1 Nw Porter, MN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 334 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2209 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
613 WFUS53 KMPX 130139 TORMPX MNC173-130215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 837 PM CDT SAT JUN 12 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 833 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO...8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CANBY...OR ABOUT 27 MILES SOUTH OF MADISON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CANBY. THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... CANBY. LAT...LON 4467 9655 4454 9637 4466 9564 4481 9597 $$ NAISTAT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine | 56 min |
| Jun 12, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin, Ramsey | 23 min |
| Jun 12, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 59 min |
| Jun 12, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle, Swift | 65 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Minnesota, 2004Every tornado warning in 2004Tornadoes in 2004
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.