Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2000, 8:56 PM CDT for Redwood County, Minnesota. It was in force for 49 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
- Aug 7, 2000, 8:56 PM CDT (01:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2000, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Redwood County, MN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 9:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Walnut Grove, MN | Trees and power lines down. |
| Aug 7, 9:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Morgan, MN | Several utility poles and power lines down. Minor building damage. |
| Aug 7, 9:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Lamberton, MN | Few trees down, including one on house. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 1134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1449 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 6.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 080157 SVRMSP MNC127-080245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 856 PM CDT MON AUG 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... REDWOOD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 856 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF WALNUT GROVE...OR ABOUT 19 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARSHALL...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... WALNUT GROVE WABASSO SEAFORTH LUCAN LAMBERTON 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown | 41 min |
| Aug 7, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Martin, Watonwan | 64 min |
| Aug 7, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Nicollet | 61 min |
| Aug 7, 9:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Martin | 41 min |
| Aug 7, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Renville, Sibley | 52 min |
| Aug 7, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod | 62 min |
| Aug 7, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Nicollet | 46 min |
| Aug 7, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Scott | 54 min |
| Aug 7, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wright | 54 min |
| Aug 7, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 64 min |
| Aug 7, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Rice | 62 min |
| Aug 8, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kanabec | 28 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.