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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Twin Cities, MN

July 7, 2000Pepin County, Wisconsin

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 2000, 1:44 PM CDT for Pepin County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 16 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 7, 2000, 1:44 PM CDT (18:44 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 2000, 2:00 PM CDT
In force
16 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

County Pepin County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 122 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 2000-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 50 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 2000-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 249 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
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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 071844
SVRMSP
WIC091-071900-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
144 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

* UNTIL 200 PM CDT

* AT 144 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 10 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF DURAND...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  DURAND
  PORCUPINE
  ELLA
  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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 11:30 AM CDTTornado WarningMPXSaint Croix45 min
Jul 7, 11:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXPierce54 min
Jul 7, 12:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXPepin46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.