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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 10, 2000Goodhue County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2000, 3:42 PM CDT for Goodhue County, Minnesota. It was in force for 33 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
Jun 10, 2000, 3:42 PM CDT (20:42 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 2000, 4:15 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

County Goodhue County, MN

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 10, 3:50 PM CDTHail 0.75Pine Is, 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 nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 85 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 12:00Z on 2000-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 893 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2000-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 368 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
893 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-105 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
851 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
368 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
431 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.8
Supercell composite
9.7

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 102046 COR
SVRMSP
MNC049-102115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED STORM SPEED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
342 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN GOODHUE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 415 PM CDT

* AT 342 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PINE
  ISLAND...OR ABOUT 23 MILES EAST OF OWATONNA.  THE STORM WAS MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  PINE ISLAND

LARGE HAIL HAS BEENv REPORTED WITH THIS STORM.  STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM 
WINDOWS.

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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.