Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 1, 2000, 7:08 PM CDT for Lake County, Minnesota. It was in force for 52 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
- Jul 1, 2000, 7:08 PM CDT (00:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lake County, MN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 7:30 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Two Harbors, 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 1, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 434 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -162 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1201 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 435 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
516 WFUS53 KDLH 020009 TORDLH MNC075-020100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 708 PM CDT SAT JUL 1 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DULUTH MN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN LAKE COUNTY IN MINNESOTA * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 708 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF MURPHY CITY...OR ABOUT 29 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ELY... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MURPHY CITY AROUND 720 PM CDT FINLAND AROUND 730 PM CDT SILVER BAY AROUND 740 PM CDT LITTLE MARAIS AROUND 740 PM CDT GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IN EFFECT FOR THIS AREA. $$ DAP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Lake | 60 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.