Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 10, 2000, 8:47 PM CDT for Winona County, Minnesota. It was in force for 58 min. 6 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 10, 2000, 8:47 PM CDT (01:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 10, 2000, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Winona County, MN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 8:50 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Dover, MN | |
| Sep 10, 8:50 PM CDT | Hail 2 | Dover, MN | |
| Sep 10, 8:52 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Dover, MN | |
| Sep 10, 8:54 PM CDT | Hail 2.5 | Dover, MN | |
| Sep 10, 8:56 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | St Charles, MN | |
| Sep 10, 8:56 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Troy, MN |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 2354 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KARX 110148 SVRLSE MNC169-110245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 847 PM CDT SUN SEP 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WINONA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 847 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTH OF ST. CHARLES...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTH OF PRESTON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO BE... NEAR ALTURA AT 905 PM CDT NEAR LEWISTON AT 915 PM CDT NEAR ROLLINGSTONE AT 925 PM CDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. RIECK LAT...LON 4399 9218 4381 9212 4389 9148 4413 9P177
The office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Olmsted | 58 min |
| Sep 10, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Fillmore, Mower | 56 min |
| Sep 10, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Winona | 63 min |
| Sep 10, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Mower | 62 min |
| Sep 11, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Winona | 59 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.