Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 601
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 10, 2004, 9:10 PM CDT for 12 counties in Minnesota; 6 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 10, 2004, 9:10 PM CDT (02:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 2004, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Becker County, MN, Beltrami County, MN, Clay County, MN, Clearwater County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Mahnomen County, MN, Norman County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Cass County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Steele County, ND, Traill County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
1 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clay | 48 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 285 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
- 767 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1189 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 8:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Clay, Grant, Mahnomen, Norman, Otter Tail and 2 more | 54 min |
| Jul 10, 11:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Big Stone, Chippewa, Clay, Clearwater, Douglas and 14 more | 116 min |
| Jul 10, 7:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Billings, Bowman, Golden Valley, McKenzie, Slope | 94 min |
| Jul 11, 12:40 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Billings, Bowman, Golden Valley, Slope, Stark | 35 min |
| Jul 11, 12:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Divide and 17 more | 117 min |
| Jul 11, 6:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh and 19 more | 86 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.