Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2000, 10:31 AM CDT for Mower County, Minnesota. It was in force for 44 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 17, 2000, 10:31 AM CDT (15:31 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 2000, 11:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mower County, MN
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:34 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 10:42 AM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Austin, MN | |
| May 17, 10:46 AM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Austin, 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 nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 994 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
452 WUUS53 KARX 171533 SVRLSE MNC099-171615- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 1031 AM CDT WED MAY 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MOWER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1115 AM CDT * AT 1031 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING LARGE HAIL 5 MILES WEST OF VARCO...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AUSTIN. THIS ACTIVITY WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... NEAR AUSTIN AND LANSING AT 1040 AM CDT NEAR MAYVILLE AT 1045 AM CDT NEAR DEXTER AND SARGEANT AT 1050 AM CDT LARGE DESTRUCTIVE HAIL IS THE MAIN THREAT WITH THESE STORMS. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. RRS
The office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 11:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Dodge, Olmsted | 54 min |
| May 17, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Winona | 69 min |
| May 17, 4:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Winona | 3 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.