Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2000, 10:41 PM CDT for Hennepin County, Minnesota. It was in force for 64 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
- Aug 7, 2000, 10:41 PM CDT (03:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2000, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hennepin County, MN
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, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 20 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.
978 WUUS53 KMPX 080341 SVRMSP MNC053-080445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1041 PM CDT MON AUG 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HENNEPIN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1145 PM CDT * AT 1041 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 12 MILES WEST OF ST BONIFACIUS TO 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EDEN PRAIRIE...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 20 MILES EAST OF HUTCHINSON TO 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BURNSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... THE LAKE MINNETONKA AREA EDEN PRAIRIE MINNEAPOLIS ST. BONIFACIUS PLYMOUTH THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS...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, 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, 10:58 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.