Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Twin Cities, MN

May 31, 2000Faribault County, Freeborn County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2000, 10:58 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, 10:58 PM CDT (03:58 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 2000, 12:00 AM 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 31, 11:16 PM CDTHail 0.75Freeborn, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 31, 9:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 2000-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 2000-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 6 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 010403 COR
SVRMSP
MNC043-047-010500-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1058 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 MIDNIGHT CDT

* AT 1058 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED    
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES NORTH OF  
  BLUE EARTH TO 5 MILES NORTH OF ALBERT LEA...MOVING EAST AT 30      
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  ALBERT LEA
  HAYWARD
  BLUE EARTH

LARGE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS...THESE ARE DANGEROUS 
STORMS...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

CWS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 9:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXFaribault, Freeborn62 min
May 31, 11:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXFreeborn61 min
Jun 1, 12:33 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMPXFreeborn2 hr
Jun 1, 2:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXGoodhue40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2000Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.