Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2000, 1:46 PM CDT for Blue Earth County, Minnesota. It was in force for 39 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
- May 17, 2000, 1:46 PM CDT (18:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 2000, 2:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Blue Earth County, MN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 1:55 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Garden City, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 1:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 98 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.
828 WUUS53 KMPX 171847 SVRMSP MNC013-171925- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 146 PM CDT WED MAY 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BLUE EARTH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 225 PM CDT * AT 146 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES EAST OF LAKE CRYSTAL TO 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LAKE CRYSTAL TO 14 MILES SOUTH OF LAKE CRYSTAL...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MANKATO TO 11 MILES SOUTH OF MANKATO TO 19 MILES NORTH OF BLUE EARTH...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... PEMBERTON LAKE CRYSTAL BEAUFORD MAPLETON ST. CLAIR MANKATO THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. HEAVY RAINS MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THEY MAY BE WASHED OUT. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
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, 12:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Redwood | 68 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, 2:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice | 48 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.