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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 2000, 6:39 PM CDT for Douglas County, Minnesota. It was in force for 66 min. 3 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, 6:39 PM CDT (23:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2000, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Douglas County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 190 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:58 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 7, 7:40 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Kensington, MN | |
| Jul 7, 7:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Kensington, MN | Trees felled. |
| Jul 7, 7:50 PM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Kensington, 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 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, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 188 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 072341 SVRMSP MNC041-080045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 639 PM CDT FRI JUL 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DOUGLAS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 639 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 5 MILES WEST OF EVANSVILLE...OR ABOUT 21 MILES WEST OF ALEXANDRIA...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... HOLMES CITY GARFIELD EVANSVILLE BRANDON ALEXANDRIA KENSINGTON LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY 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, 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, 12:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 46 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.