Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 2000, 12:14 PM CDT for Pepin County, Wisconsin; Goodhue County, Minnesota. It was in force for 46 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 7, 2000, 12:14 PM CDT (17:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2000, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Goodhue County, MN, Pepin County, WI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 12:15 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Red Wing, MN | Corn stripped in Wacouta, Welch and Florence townships as storm tracked to the southeast. |
| Jul 7, 12:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Red Wing, MN | Numerous trees down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 12:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 102 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 071714 SVRMSP MNC049-WIC091-071800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1214 PM CDT FRI JUL 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PEPIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN EXTREME EASTERN GOODHUE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 100 PM CDT * AT 1214 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 7 MILES NORTH OF STOCKHOLM...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ELLSWORTH... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... RED WING CANNON FALLS DURAND PEPIN THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 11:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Saint Croix | 45 min |
| Jul 7, 11:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pierce | 54 min |
| Jul 7, 1:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pepin | 16 min |
| Jul 7, 10:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Isanti, Mille Lacs, Sherburne | 40 min |
| Jul 7, 10:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka | 47 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, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 66 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.