Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 154, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 2000, 6:18 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Lyon County, Minnesota. It was in force for 42 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 25, 2000, 6:18 PM CDT (23:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 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 25, 6:20 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Minneota, MN | Large hail caused widespread crop damage, with soybean crops especially hard hit. Crop damage estimates were available but incomplete. |
| Jul 25, 6:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Minneota, MN | |
| Jul 25, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Marshall, MN | A brief tornado caused no reported damage. |
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 25, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 507 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -190 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1587 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KFSD 252320 SVRFSD MNC081-083-260000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 618 PM CDT TUE JUL 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEAST LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA LYON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 618 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TAUNTON...OR ABOUT 17 MILES WEST OF MARSHALL...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RUSSELL AROUND 700 PM CDT AT 615 PM A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED QUARTER SIZE HAIL 8 MILES WEST OF MINNEOTA. IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD-PRONE AREAS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS gIN EXCESS OF 58 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 11:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 26 min |
| Jul 25, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Lyon | 48 min |
| Jul 25, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Pipestone | 47 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.