Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2000, 12:22 PM CDT for Brown County, Redwood County, Minnesota. It was in force for 68 min. 5 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
- May 17, 2000, 12:22 PM CDT (17:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 2000, 1:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Brown County, MN, Redwood County, MN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 12:27 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Sleepy Eye, MN | |
| May 17, 12:40 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Sanborn, MN | |
| May 17, 12:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Comfrey, MN | |
| May 17, 12:50 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Springfield, MN | |
| May 17, 12:55 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | New Ulm, MN | More than 100 vehicles at a dealership sustained damage. |
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 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 994 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
492 WUUS53 KMPX 171727 SVRMSP MNC015-127-171830- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1222 PM CDT WED MAY 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN REDWOOD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA BROWN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 130 PM CDT * AT 1222 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER SLEEPY EYE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES WEST OF NEW ULM...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. A SECOND LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER SOUTH CENTRAL REDWOOD COUNTY ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF REDWOOD FALLS...MOVING TO THE EAST 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... SLEEPY EYE SANBORN COMFREY NEW ULM CLEMENTS SPRINGFIELD AT 1225 PM...A STORM SPOTTER REPORTED GOLFBALL HAIL JUST OUTSIDE SLEEPY EYE. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 10:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 29 min |
| May 17, 11:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Redwood | 54 min |
| May 17, 12:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Nicollet | 58 min |
| May 17, 1:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Watonwan | 39 min |
| May 17, 1:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur | 62 min |
| May 17, 1:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth | 39 min |
| May 17, 2:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice | 48 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.