Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 2000, 10:13 AM CDT for Anoka County, Minnesota. It was in force for 47 min. 5 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 7, 2000, 10:13 AM CDT (15:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2000, 11:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Anoka County, MN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 10:25 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | St Francis, MN | Power lines down. |
| Jul 7, 10:30 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Ramsey, MN | Several trees down. |
| Jul 7, 10:35 AM CDT | Hail 1.5 | Anoka, MN | |
| Jul 7, 10:45 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 65 E | Blaine, MN | Damage survey confirmed downburst initially hit in extreme southeast Blaine, just west of Centennial High School. Damage was produced for about 1/2 mile as it travelled southeast. Hundreds of trees downed, including some on houses and vehicles. Survey reveale |
| Jul 7, 10:45 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Lino Lakes, MN | Hundreds of trees down from the northeast side of Reshanau Lake to Amelia Lake, near Interstate 35E and County Road J. A truck was overturned. This was the apparent start of a mesocyclone that produced occasional downburst damage, from White Bear Lake, acros |
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, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 55 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
- 50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -428 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 589 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 367 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 071514 SVRMSP MNC003-071600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1013 AM CDT FRI JUL 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ANOKA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1100 AM CDT * AT 1013 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 7 MILES WEST OF ST FRANCIS...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTH OF PRINCETON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... ST FRANCIS EAST BETHEL ANDOVER RAMSEY THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. AT 1008 AM...THE SHERBURNE COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED TREES BLOWN DOWN IN THE ZIMMERMAN AREA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 10:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Isanti, Mille Lacs, Sherburne | 40 min |
| Jul 7, 10:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin, Ramsey | 62 min |
| Jul 7, 11:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Washington | 41 min |
| Jul 7, 11:14 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Washington | 31 min |
| Jul 7, 12:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 46 min |
| Jul 7, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 66 min |
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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.