Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 610
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 12, 2004, 1:55 AM CDT for 25 counties in Minnesota; 7 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 12, 2004, 1:55 AM CDT (06:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 2004, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 32 counties
Becker County, MN, Beltrami County, MN, Cass County, MN, Clay County, MN, Clearwater County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Grant County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Itasca County, MN, Kittson County, MN, Koochiching County, MN, Lake of the Woods County, MN, Mahnomen County, MN, Marshall County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Norman County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Roseau County, MN, Todd County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Cass County, ND, Grand Forks 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), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:55 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.
Warnings issued inside it
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 4:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Norman | 37 min |
| Jul 12, 4:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clay | 39 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 305 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
- 2835 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1224 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 1:29 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Kittson, Mahnomen and 7 more | 91 min |
| Jul 12, 3:13 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clay, Clearwater, Crow Wing and 19 more | 92 min |
| Jul 12, 4:53 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Cass, Clay, Clearwater, Crow Wing, Douglas and 9 more | 67 min |
| Jul 12, 8:53 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Grant, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Pipestone, Rock and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 12, 10:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Lyon and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 12, 6:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jackson, Nobles, Rock | 7 hr |
| Jul 11, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Divide and 16 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 11, 9:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Billings, Burke, Divide, Dunn, Golden Valley and 12 more | 116 min |
| Jul 11, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Golden Valley | 5 hr |
| Jul 11, 11:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Benson, Billings, Bottineau, Burke, Burleigh and 30 more | 116 min |
| Jul 11, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barnes, Benson, Burleigh, Cavalier, Dickey, Eddy and 17 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Dakota, 2004Every severe thunderstorm watch 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.