Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 2000, 6:15 PM CDT for Lake County, Saint Louis County, Minnesota. It was in force for 60 min. 3 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
- Jul 1, 2000, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2000, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lake County, MN, Saint Louis County, MN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 6:30 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Ely, MN | |
| Jul 1, 6:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Ely, MN | Trees were blown down. Wind speed is estimated. |
| Jul 1, 7:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Virginia, MN | Trees were blown down. Wind speed is estimated. |
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 1, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -226 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1275 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
870 WUUS53 KDLH 012314 SVRDLH MNC075-137-020015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 615 PM CDT SAT JUL 1 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DULUTH MN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ALL OF LAKE COUNTY IN MINNESOTA NORTHERN ST. LOUIS COUNTY IN MINNESOTA * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 615 PM CDT SKYWARN SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF ELY...AND 0.88 INCH HAIL AT ORR...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WINTON...ELY AROUND 630 PM CDT SILVER RAPIDS AROUND 635 PM CDT DAMAGING HAIL UP TO ONE INCH AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS OVER 60 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. $$ & WJC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Koochiching, Saint Louis | 60 min |
| Jul 1, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Saint Louis | 56 min |
| Jul 1, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Koochiching | 52 min |
| Jul 1, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Lake | 30 min |
| Jul 1, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Saint Louis | 35 min |
| Jul 1, 6:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Lake, Saint Louis | 38 min |
| Jul 1, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Saint Louis | 55 min |
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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.