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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Twin Cities, MN

July 25, 2000Renville County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 2000, 6:46 PM CDT for Renville County, Minnesota. It was in force for 44 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 25, 2000, 6:46 PM CDT (23:46 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 2000, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Whole counties

County Renville County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 107 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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 252347
SVRMSP
MNC129-260030-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  RENVILLE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 646 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 2 MILES WEST OF RENVILLE...OR
  ABOUT 13 MILES WEST OF OLIVIA...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  RENVILLE
  OLIVIA
  HECTOR
  DANUBE
  BUFFALO LAKE
  BIRD ISLAND

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THIS WARNING
REPLACES THE TORNADO WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR RENVILLE COUNTY.

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, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Morrison, Stearns, Todd	45 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

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.