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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Twin Cities, MN

May 17, 2000Rice County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2000, 2:12 PM CDT for Rice County, Minnesota. It was in force for 48 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: May 17, 2000, 2:12 PM CDT (19:12 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 2000, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Whole counties

County Rice County, MN

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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 60 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

537 
WUUS53 KMPX 171912
SVRMSP
MNC131-172000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
212 PM CDT WED MAY 17 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  RICE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 300 PM CDT

* AT 212 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 6 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF MORRISTOWN...OR ABOUT 12 MILES WEST OF FARIBAULT...
  MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  NORTHFIELD
  MORRISTOWN
  LONSDALE
  DUNDAS
  FARIBAULT
  NERSTRAND

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.

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, 1:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth	39 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2000 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.