Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 39, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Aug 7, 2000, 9:06 PM CDT for Jackson County, Minnesota. It was in force for 24 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
- Aug 7, 2000, 9:06 PM CDT (02:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2000, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:07 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 9:10 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Bergen, MN | A tornado caused damage to farm buildings and crops. The amount of crop damage was not determined. |
| Aug 7, 9:22 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Bergen, MN | A tornado caused damaged to farm buildings. |
| Aug 7, 9:25 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Lakefield, MN | A tornado caused extensive damage to a family owned dairy farm. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 1134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1449 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 6.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KFSD 080206 TORFSD MNC063-080230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 906 PM CDT MON AUG 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... JACKSON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 906 PM CDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF BERGEN...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTH OF JACKSON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... BERGEN AROUND 915 PM CDT THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Pipestone, Rock | 34 min |
| Aug 7, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Pipestone, Rock | 30 min |
| Aug 7, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Murray | 28 min |
| Aug 7, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 35 min |
| Aug 7, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson | 28 min |
| Aug 7, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Murray | 17 min |
| Aug 7, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Murray | 31 min |
| Aug 7, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson | 29 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.