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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Twin Cities, MN

July 25, 2000Pope County, Stearns County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 2000, 5:29 PM CDT for Pope County, Stearns County, Minnesota. It was in force for 61 min. 7 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 25, 2000, 5:29 PM CDT (22:29 UTC)
Expired
Jul 25, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Pope County, MN, Stearns County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 25, 5:30 PM CDTHail 1Meire Grove, MN
Jul 25, 5:35 PM CDTHail 0.75Gilchrist, MN
Jul 25, 5:35 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 50 EGilchrist, MNFew trees down.
Jul 25, 5:38 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 60 ESauk Centre, MNPower lines down.
Jul 25, 5:42 PM CDTHail 1.75Sauk Centre, MN
Jul 25, 6:25 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 50 EAvon, MNFifteen foot pine tree toppled.
Jul 25, 6:35 PM CDTHail 0.75Spring Hill, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 25, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 138 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 2000-07-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 158 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 2000-07-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
158 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-126 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
797 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-84 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 252231
SVRMSP
MNC121-145-252330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
529 PM CDT TUE JUL 25 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WEST STEARNS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  EAST POPE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 529 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 
  EXTENDING FROM 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF SAUK CENTRE TO 5 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF BROOTEN...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  SAUK CENTRE
  ALBANY

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 25, 2:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMorrison51 min
Jul 25, 3:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBenton, Mille Lacs56 min
Jul 25, 3:48 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXKanabec, Mille Lacs42 min
Jul 25, 4:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXDouglas54 min
Jul 25, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXKanabec, Mille Lacs45 min
Jul 25, 4:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXPope, Stearns53 min
Jul 25, 4:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXTodd53 min
Jul 25, 5:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXChippewa, Swift63 min
Jul 25, 5:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXIsanti37 min
Jul 25, 5:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXChisago56 min
Jul 25, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMorrison, Stearns, Todd45 min
Jul 25, 6:17 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXRedwood, Renville28 min
Jul 25, 6:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXStearns54 min
Jul 25, 6:33 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXBenton, Stearns27 min
Jul 25, 6:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXKandiyohi, Meeker52 min
Jul 25, 6:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRenville44 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.