Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 125, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 2000, 11:42 PM CDT for Dakota County, Ramsey County, Minnesota. It was in force for 33 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 2, 2000, 11:42 PM CDT (04:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2000, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dakota County, MN, Ramsey County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:43 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.
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 |
| Sep 2, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 41 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.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 030443 SVRMSP MNC037-123-030515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1142 PM CDT SAT SEP 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN DAKOTA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA RAMSEY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1215 AM CDT * AT 1142 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL OVER ST PAUL...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... ST PAUL WEST ST PAUL MENDOTA HEIGHTS INVER GROVE HEIGHTS 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, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 63 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, 11:48 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.