Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 120, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 2000, 10:42 PM CDT for Hennepin County, Minnesota. It was in force for 63 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
- Sep 2, 2000, 10:42 PM CDT (03:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2000, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hennepin County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:42 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 10:50 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Crystal, MN | |
| Sep 2, 10:58 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Minneapolis, MN | |
| Sep 2, 10:58 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Eden Prairie, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 20 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
- 1042 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -543 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1110 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 527 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 714 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
015 WUUS53 KMPX 030342 SVRMSP MNC053-030445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1042 PM CDT SAT SEP 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HENNEPIN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1145 PM CDT * AT 1042 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 3 MILES SOUTH OF LONG LAKE...OR ABOUT 14 MILES WEST OF MINNEAPOLIS...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... ST LOUIS PARK PLYMOUTH THE LAKE MINNETONKA AREA MAPLE GROVE BROOKLYN PARK THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH LARGE HAIL...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Wright | 66 min |
| Sep 2, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin | 56 min |
| Sep 2, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago | 56 min |
| Sep 2, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Ramsey | 45 min |
| Sep 2, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Watonwan | 56 min |
| Sep 2, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Washington | 64 min |
| Sep 2, 11:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Hennepin, Ramsey, Washington | 3 hr |
| Sep 2, 11:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Scott | 59 min |
| Sep 2, 11:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Nicollet | 65 min |
| Sep 2, 11:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Ramsey | 33 min |
| Sep 2, 11:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth | 42 min |
| Sep 2, 11:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Scott | 22 min |
| Sep 2, 11:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Dakota | 3 hr |
| Sep 3, 12:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Waseca | 67 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.