Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 2000, 12:15 PM CDT for Wabasha County, Minnesota. It was in force for 60 min. 2 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
- Jul 7, 2000, 12:15 PM CDT (17:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2000, 1:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Wabasha County, MN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 12:35 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Lake City, MN | |
| Jul 7, 1:00 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Conception, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 12:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -428 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 589 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 367 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KARX 071716 SVRLSE MNC157-071815- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 1215 PM CDT FRI JUL 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WABASHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 115 PM CDT * AT 1215 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAKE CITY...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RED WING...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO BE... NEAR LAKE CITY AT 1230 PM CDT NEAR WABASHA AT 1250 PM CDT NEAR PLAINVIEW...KELLOGG AT 100 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. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA. NELSON LAT...LON 4461 9239 4446 9259 4411 9211 4426 9184
The office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 12:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Winona | 62 min |
| Jul 7, 1:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Wabasha, Winona | 61 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.