1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Twin Cities, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 15, 2:00 PM CST, 2 hours 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 300 PM CDT THU JUL 15 2004 .DISCUSSION... SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT FORECAST CONCERN IS SVR POTENTIAL THIS EVENING. EDGE OF VERY UNSTABLE AIR OVER WESTERN MN. LOW LEVEL FLOW NOT THAT STRONG INTO CWA...BUT WINDS TURN NW FAIRLY RAPIDLY AND SPEEDS INCREASE TO NEAR 70K AT 300 MB PER WDL PROFILER AT 19Z. ETA AND GFS FORECAST THE JET TO BE ABOUT OVER THE CENTER OF THE CWA..FROM NW TO SE THIS EVENING..WHICH IS NOT THAT GOOD...IN TERMS OF QUADRANT UPPER DIV. BEST AREA WOULD BE OVER FAR SW MN THIS EVENING. BEST 850 MB THETA E ADVECTION AND LAYER DIV TEMP ADVECTION PASSES JUST TO OUR SW..BUT WEAKER SECOND AREA SHOWING UP OVER NW MN CLOSE TO CURRENT AREA OF CONVECTION. BETTER LAYER QG CONV PASSES OVER EASTERN MN AND WESTERN WI CLOSE TO MAIN SHORT WAVE. THIS DOES CORRESPOND TO LARGER AREA OF CONVECTION OVER N CENTRAL MN..IF IT HOLDS TOGETHER. WILL GO HIGHER POPS IN EASTERN AREAS. OTHERWISE...SHORT WAVE WILL HAVE PASSED THROUGH THE AREA BY FRIDAY MORNING..BUT SOME CAPE LEFT OVER IN WESTERN WI. THOUGHT ABOUT LEAVING SMALL CHANCE IN FROM PREV GRIDS..BUT WITH LACK OF OTHER FORCING...WILL LEAVE OUT. RIDGE PUSHING IN FOR FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY NIGHT FOR A COUPLE OF NICE DAYS. FOR THE PERIOD SUN NGT THRU THU...EXTENDED GUIDANCE SHOWING GOOD AGREEMENT IN BREAKING DOWN UPR RDG ACRS NRN PLAINS MON INTO TUE WITH FAIRLY SIGNIFICANT S/W TROUGH EXPCD TO PASS THRU AROUND WED FOLLOWED BY SLIGHTLY COOLER WEATHER TO FINISH OFF THE WORK WEEK...HWVR GFSLR MOST LKLY OVERDOING AMOUNT OF COOL DOWN. WK PRECURSOR S/W SUN NGT IN AGREEMENT WITH CANADIAN AND LATEST DGEX MAY BRING PRECIP TO NRN AREAS. MPX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MN...NONE. WI...NONE. && JPR/MBK
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 502 AM CDT THU JUL 15 2004 MNZ041>045-047>070-073>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ014>016-023>028-161100- ANOKA-BARRON-BENTON-BLUE EARTH-BROWN-CARVER-CHIPPEWA-CHISAGO-DAKOTA- DOUGLAS-DUNN-EAU CLAIRE-FARIBAULT-FREEBORN-GOODHUE-HENNEPIN-ISANTI- KANABEC-KANDIYOHI-LAC QUI PARLE-LE SUEUR-MARTIN-MCLEOD-MEEKER- MILLE LACS-MORRISON-NICOLLET-PEPIN-PIERCE-POLK-POPE-RAMSEY-REDWOOD- RENVILLE-RICE-RUSK-SCOTT-SHERBURNE-SIBLEY-ST CROIX-STEARNS-STEELE- STEVENS-SWIFT-TODD-WASECA-WASHINGTON-WATONWAN-WRIGHT-YELLOW MEDICINE- 502 AM CDT THU JUL 15 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER INDICATES THAT THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE STORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT ACROSS THE REGION. CONDITIONS WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPMENT AT MOST LOCATIONS BY EARLY AFTERNOON. THE BEST CHANCE OF SEVERE STORMS HOWEVER WILL BE ALONG AND JUST AHEAD OF A LOW PRESSURE TROUGH. THIS TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE FROM NORTHWEST MINNESOTA TO CENTRAL MINNESOTA LATE THIS AFTERNOON...THEN REACH A LINE FROM BARRON...WISCONSIN TO THE TWIN CITIES TO NEW ULM LATE THIS EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE POTENTIAL STORMS IS EXPECTED TO BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY AND THIS EVENING.
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 183 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:55 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A downed tree barely missed a house 2 miles south of Rose City.
Penny to nickel sized hail flattened a garden and chipped paint off a home.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Minnesota in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Minnesota, July 2004
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5414295, 5414296.