Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 2000, 5:45 PM CDT for Morrison County, Stearns County, Todd County, Minnesota. It was in force for 45 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 25, 2000, 5:45 PM CDT (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Morrison County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Todd County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:47 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 25, 6:00 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Morrill, MN | |
| Jul 25, 6:25 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Avon, MN | Fifteen foot pine tree toppled. |
| Jul 25, 6:35 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Spring 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jul 25, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 252246 SVRMSP MNC097-145-153-252330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 545 PM CDT TUE JUL 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN STEARNS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA SOUTHERN TODD COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA SOUTHERN MORRISON COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 545 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 5 MILES EAST OF SAUK CENTRE...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTH OF LONG PRAIRIE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTZED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... ST CLOUD SAUK CENTRE PAYNESVILLE ALBANY 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 25, 2:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 51 min |
| Jul 25, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Mille Lacs | 56 min |
| Jul 25, 3:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kanabec, Mille Lacs | 42 min |
| Jul 25, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 54 min |
| Jul 25, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kanabec, Mille Lacs | 45 min |
| Jul 25, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope, Stearns | 53 min |
| Jul 25, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Todd | 53 min |
| Jul 25, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Swift | 63 min |
| Jul 25, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Isanti | 37 min |
| Jul 25, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope, Stearns | 61 min |
| Jul 25, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago | 56 min |
| Jul 25, 6:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Redwood, Renville | 28 min |
| Jul 25, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 54 min |
| Jul 25, 6:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Benton, Stearns | 27 min |
| Jul 25, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker | 52 min |
| Jul 25, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Renville | 44 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.