Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 1, 2000, 6:22 PM CDT for Lake County, Saint Louis County, Minnesota. It was in force for 38 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
- Jul 1, 2000, 6:22 PM CDT (23:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 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. |
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, 11.4 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.
232 WFUS53 KDLH 012324 TORDLH MNC075-137-020000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 622 PM CDT SAT JUL 1 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DULUTH MN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN LAKE COUNTY IN MINNESOTA NORTHERN ST. LOUIS COUNTY IN MINNESOTA * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 622 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR ELY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ELY THROUGH 635 PM CDT SILVER RAPIDS AROUND 635 PM CDT BUTTERFLY LAKE AROUND 655 PM CDT THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR $$ DAP
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, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Lake, Saint Louis | 60 min |
| Jul 1, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Saint Louis | 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.