Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2000, 9:07 PM CDT for Mower County, Minnesota; Mitchell County, Iowa. It was in force for 53 min. 3 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
- May 31, 2000, 9:07 PM CDT (02:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Mitchell County, IA, Mower County, MN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 9:29 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Lyle, MN | |
| May 31, 9:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Grand Meadow, MN | |
| May 31, 9:37 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Stacyville, IA |
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 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 1826 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KARX 010209 SVRLSE IAC131-MNC099-010300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 907 PM CDT WED MAY 31 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MOWER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA MITCHELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL IOWA * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT * AT 907 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL OVER CARPENTER... OR ABOUT 20 MILES NORTH OF MASON CITY. THIS ACTIVITY WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... NEAR LYLE AND MONA AT 920 PM CDT NEAR JOHNSBURG AT 935 PM CDT NEAR ADAMS AT 945 PM 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. NELSON LAT...LON 4385 9305 4322 9303 4321 9257 4382 9252
The office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Fillmore | 57 min |
| May 31, 10:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Houston | 55 min |
| May 31, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Olmsted, Winona | 67 min |
| May 31, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Mower | 59 min |
| May 31, 11:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Mower | 5 hr |
| Jun 1, 1:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Fillmore | 5 hr |
| Jun 1, 3:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Mower | 2 hr |
| Jun 1, 4:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Houston | 95 min |
| Jun 1, 6:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Fillmore, Houston, Mower | 4 hr |
| Jun 1, 10:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Fillmore, Houston, Mower | 6 hr |
| Jun 1, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Winona | 60 min |
| Jun 1, 2:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Fillmore | 58 min |
| Jun 1, 2:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Winona | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Houston | 63 min |
| May 31, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clayton | 45 min |
| May 31, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Mitchell | 60 min |
| May 31, 10:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Mitchell | 5 hr |
| May 31, 10:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Howard | 4 hr |
| Jun 1, 12:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Howard, Mitchell | 58 min |
| Jun 1, 12:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Chickasaw | 61 min |
| Jun 1, 12:22 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Allamakee, Winneshiek | 6 hr |
| Jun 1, 1:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Allamakee, Clayton | 55 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.