Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2000, 9:58 PM CDT for Faribault County, Freeborn County, Minnesota. It was in force for 62 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 31, 2000, 9:58 PM CDT (02:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2000, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Faribault County, MN, Freeborn County, MN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 10:36 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Alden, 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 31, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 1826 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 010258 SVRMSP MNC043-047-010400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 958 PM CDT WED MAY 31 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... FREEBORN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA FARIBAULT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1100 PM CDT * AT 958 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 3 MILES EAST OF BLUE EARTH... MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... WELLS FROST EASTON BLUE EARTH ALDEN CONGER THIS IS A DANGEROxUS STORM WITH LARGE HAIL...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 31, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn | 62 min |
| May 31, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 61 min |
| Jun 1, 12:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 2 hr |
| Jun 1, 2:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 40 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.