Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2000, 10:35 PM CDT for Allamakee County, Iowa; Houston County, Minnesota. It was in force for 55 min. 1 report 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 31, 2000, 10:35 PM CDT (03:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2000, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Allamakee County, IA, Houston County, MN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 11:00 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Lansing, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 1028 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -177 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 935 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 339 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KARX 010336 SVRLSE IAC005-MNC055-010430- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 1035 PM CDT WED MAY 31 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN ALLAMAKEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST IOWA HOUSTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1130 PM CDT * AT 1035 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EITZEN...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTH OF CALEDONIA. THIS ACTIVITY WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... NEAR NEW ALBIN AND RENO AT 1045 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clayton | 45 min |
| May 31, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Mitchell | 53 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 |
| Jun 1, 6:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Allamakee | 4 hr |
| May 31, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Fillmore | 57 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, 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 |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
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.