Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2000, 12:27 AM CDT for Dakota County, Minnesota. It was in force for 63 min. 1 report 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 8, 2000, 12:27 AM CDT (05:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2000, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dakota County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:38 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 8, 12:30 AM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Burnsville, 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 nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 47 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
- 2326 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 701 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 316 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 494 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 5.5
- Supercell composite
- 32.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
077 WUUS53 KMPX 080528 SVRMSP MNC037-080630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1227 AM CDT SAT JUL 8 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DAKOTA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 130 AM CDT * AT 1227 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL OVER ROSEMOUNT...OR ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTH OF MINNEAPOLIS. THE STORM WAS DRIFTING EAST AT 15 MPH. HAIL AROUND ONE INCH AND TORRENTIAL RAIN ARE LIKELY. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... ROSEMOUNT HASTINGS COATES 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, 7:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope | 42 min |
| Jul 7, 8:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Pope | 52 min |
| Jul 7, 8:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Stearns | 52 min |
| Jul 7, 8:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 46 min |
| Jul 7, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Stearns | 30 min |
| Jul 7, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota | 46 min |
| Jul 8, 12:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin, Ramsey | 58 min |
| Jul 8, 12:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 1:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota | 63 min |
| Jul 8, 2:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Dakota | 2 hr |
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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.