Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 80
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 18, 2004, 12:30 AM CDT for 17 counties in Minnesota; 11 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 18, 2004, 12:30 AM CDT (05:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 18, 2004, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 28 counties
Anoka County, MN, Carver County, MN, Chisago County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Rice County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Washington County, MN, Wright County, MN, Barron County, WI, Buffalo County, WI, Chippewa County, WI, Dunn County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI, Pepin County, WI, Pierce County, WI, Polk County, WI, Rusk County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI, Trempealeau County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:33 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
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 12:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue | 41 min |
| Apr 18, 1:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pierce | 67 min |
| Apr 18, 1:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue, Washington | 31 min |
| Apr 18, 1:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron | 41 min |
| Apr 18, 1:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Saint Croix | 38 min |
| Apr 18, 1:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pepin | 48 min |
| Apr 18, 1:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rusk | 46 min |
| Apr 18, 2:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn | 51 min |
| Apr 18, 2:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron | 29 min |
| Apr 18, 2:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Saint Croix | 36 min |
| Apr 18, 2:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Buffalo | 48 min |
| Apr 18, 2:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Eau Claire, Pepin | 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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 2026 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 489 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 17, 9:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston and 7 more | 119 min |
| Apr 17, 10:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 17, 11:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Grant, Jackson, Kandiyohi and 14 more | 95 min |
| Apr 17, 11:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Kandiyohi and 16 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 17, 11:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston and 7 more | 85 min |
| Apr 18, 2:37 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Big Stone, Brown, Carlton and 40 more | 53 min |
| Apr 18, 4:43 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Benton, Carlton, Cass, Chisago, Crow Wing and 15 more | 32 min |
| Apr 18, 8:04 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Benton, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Douglas and 6 more | 86 min |
| Apr 18, 12:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Big Stone, Carlton, Carver and 32 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 18, 1:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Carlton, Carver, Chippewa and 32 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 18, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Lincoln, Lyon, Pipestone, Rock | 6 hr |
| Apr 18, 3:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Carlton, Chisago, Crow Wing and 12 more | 117 min |
| Apr 18, 4:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore and 15 more | 60 min |
| Apr 18, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Cottonwood, Dodge, Faribault, Freeborn, Jackson and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 18, 5:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lincoln, Lyon, Pipestone, Rock | 2 hr |
| Apr 18, 6:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Carver, Dakota, Goodhue, Hennepin, Le Sueur and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 18, 1:49 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calumet, Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green and 11 more | 56 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.