Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2000, 1:39 AM CDT for Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota. It was in force for 51 min. 2 reports 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
- Jul 2, 2000, 1:39 AM CDT (06:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2000, 2:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lac qui Parle County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 1:50 AM CDT | Hail 1 | Louisburg, MN | |
| Jul 2, 2:00 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Cerro Gordo, MN | Pea size hail and crop damage also reported at this location. |
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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 3394 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2103 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 9.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
936 WUUS53 KMPX 020640 SVRMSP MNC073-020730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 139 AM CDT SUN JUL 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 230 AM CDT * AT 139 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF BELLINGHAM...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTH OF ORTONVILLE... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... LOUISBURG BELLINGHAM THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN EXCESS OF ONE INCH IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 1:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker | 42 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.