Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 2000, 10:49 PM CDT for Watonwan County, Minnesota. It was in force for 56 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
- Sep 2, 2000, 10:49 PM CDT (03:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2000, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Watonwan County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:52 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, 11:25 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Darfur, 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 nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 126 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.
233 WUUS53 KMPX 030349 SVRMSP MNC165-030445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1049 PM CDT SAT SEP 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WATONWAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1145 PM CDT * AT 1049 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 5 MILES WEST OF ODIN...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ST JAMES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... ST JAMES ORMSBY ODIN MADELIA LA SALLE BUTTERFIELD LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY 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, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 63 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.