Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2000, 9:58 PM CDT for McLeod County, Minnesota. It was in force for 62 min. 1 report 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, 9:58 PM CDT (02:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2000, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County McLeod County, MN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 10:35 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Hutchinson, MN | Power lines and large tree limbs 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 53 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 080259 SVRMSP MNC085-080400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 958 PM CDT MON AUG 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MCLEOD COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1100 PM CDT * AT 958 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 6 MILES SOUTH OF BROWNTON...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTH OF HUTCHINSON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... SILVER LAKE PLATO GLENCOE BROWNTON BISCAY STEWART 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown | 41 min |
| Aug 7, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood | 49 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, 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 |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
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.