Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 7, 2000, 8:59 PM CDT for Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. It was in force for 46 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 7, 2000, 8:59 PM CDT (01:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2000, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kandiyohi County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 7, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 2326 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 701 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 316 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 494 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 5.5
- Supercell composite
- 32.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
756 WFUS53 KMPX 080202 TORMSP MNC067-080245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 859 PM CDT FRI JUL 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEAST KANDIYOHI COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 859 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 16 MILES WEST OF REGAL...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GLENWOOD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT 1 MILE SOUTHWEST OF BROOTEN IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST POPE COUNTY AT 855 PM. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... REGAL HAWICK RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEAST KANDIYOHI COUNTY GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IF YOU ARE IN A CAR...ABANDON IT AND GO TO A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 7:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope | 42 min |
| Jul 7, 8:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Pope | 52 min |
| Jul 7, 8:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Stearns | 52 min |
| Jul 7, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Stearns | 30 min |
| Jul 7, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota | 46 min |
| Jul 8, 12:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin, Ramsey | 58 min |
| Jul 8, 12:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 12:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota | 63 min |
| Jul 8, 1:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota | 63 min |
| Jul 8, 2:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Dakota | 2 hr |
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.