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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Twin Cities, MN

April 27, 2000Chippewa County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Apr 27, 2000, 2:08 PM CDT for Chippewa County, Minnesota. It was in force for 37 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
Apr 27, 2000, 2:08 PM CDT (19:08 UTC)
Expired
Apr 27, 2000, 2:45 PM CDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

County Chippewa County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:10 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 nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 156 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2000-04-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 49 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2000-04-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -6 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
49 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
905 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
93 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 
WFUS53 KMPX 271909
TORMSP
MNC023-271945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
208 PM CDT THU APR 27 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CHIPPEWA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 245 PM CDT

* AT 208 PM CDT LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A TORNADO 
  6 MILES EAST OF MONTEVIDEO...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. ANOTHER 
  TORNADO WAS REPORTED JUST NORTH OF CLARA CITY.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...
  WATSON
  MONTEVIDEO
  MAYNARD
  CLARA CITY

GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!

&

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.