Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 2000, 11:11 PM CDT for Faribault County, Martin County, Minnesota. It was in force for 49 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 9, 2000, 11:11 PM CDT (04:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2000, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Faribault County, MN, Martin County, MN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 11:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Fairmont, MN | Rose Lake Golf club east of Fairmont reported 25 trees down, and 53 large trees were downed 4 miles east of Fairmont. |
| Jul 9, 11:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Blue Earth, MN | Trees and power lines 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 9, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 3029 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 779 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 62 min |
| Jul 9, 11:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Faribault | 28 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.