Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2000, 8:19 PM CDT for Kanabec County, Minnesota. It was in force for 26 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, 8:19 PM CDT (01:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2000, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kanabec County, MN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 8:29 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Mora, MN | Trees downed on power lines near Knife lake. |
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 8, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 3971 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1312 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 17.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 090119 SVRMSP MNC065-090145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 819 PM CDT SAT JUL 8 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KANABEC COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 819 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF QUAMBA...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF MORA...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... QUAMBA MORA OGILVIE 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 8, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Todd | 63 min |
| Jul 8, 9:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Todd | 47 min |
| Jul 8, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 54 min |
| Jul 8, 11:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Morrison, Todd | 5 hr |
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.