Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 32, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Jul 25, 2000, 9:29 PM CDT for Nobles 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 25, 2000, 9:29 PM CDT (02:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2000, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 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 02:29 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 25, 9:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Worthington, 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 25, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 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 260231 TORFSD MNC105-260315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 929 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 1015 PM CDT * AT 929 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 7 MILES NORTH OF RUSHMORE...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF WORTHINGTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... WORTHINGTON AROUND 940 PM CDT ROUND LAKE AROUND 1005 PM CDT DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.
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, 8:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Nobles | 33 min |
| Jul 25, 8:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Nobles | 51 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.