Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 30, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Jul 25, 2000, 8:12 PM CDT for Nobles County, Minnesota. It was in force for 33 min. 5 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, 8:12 PM CDT (01:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2000, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Nobles County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:11 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, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Adrian, MN | A brief tornado caused no reported damage. |
| Jul 25, 8:20 PM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Rushmore, MN | |
| Jul 25, 8:20 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Rushmore, MN | A brief tornado caused no reported damage. |
| Jul 25, 8:27 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Rushmore, MN | A brief tornado caused no reported damage. |
| Jul 25, 8:35 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Adrian, 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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 1668 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1176 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 5.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KFSD 260112 TORFSD MNC105-260145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 812 PM CDT TUE JUL 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NOBLES COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 812 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LISMORE...OR ABOUT 16 MILES EAST OF LUVERNE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... RUSHMORE AROUND 820 PM CDT WORTHINGTON AROUND 835 PM CDT THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKEK COVER IMMEDIATELY. GO TO THE BASEMENT. IF A BASEMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 7:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Lyon | 47 min |
| Jul 25, 7:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Murray | 47 min |
| Jul 25, 8:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Nobles | 51 min |
| Jul 25, 9:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Nobles | 46 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Minnesota, 2000Every tornado warning in 2000Tornadoes in 2000
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.