Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2000, 6:29 AM CDT for Cottonwood County, Murray County, Minnesota. It was in force for 46 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 5, 2000, 6:29 AM CDT (11:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2000, 7:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cottonwood County, MN, Murray County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 6:35 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Dovray, 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 nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 580 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 771 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KFSD 051129 SVRFSD MNC033-101-051215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 629 AM CDT WED JUL 5 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN COTTONWOOD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA EASTERN MURRAY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 715 AM CDT * AT 629 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DOVRAY...OR ABOUT 7 MILES EAST OF SLAYTON...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BINGHAM LAKE...WINDOM AROUND 700 AM CDT REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY sWILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN SIOUX FALLS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 6:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Murray | 24 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.