Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 12, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 7, 2000, 9:30 PM CDT for Stearns County, Minnesota. It was in force for 30 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, 9:30 PM CDT (02:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stearns County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:33 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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 111 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.
000 WFUS53 KMPX 080230 TORMSP MNC145-080300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 930 PM CDT FRI JUL 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWEST STEARNS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT * AT 930 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAKE HENRY...OR ABOUT 21 MILES NORTHEAST OF WILLMAR...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... SPRING HILL LAKE HENRY BELGRADE PAYNESVILLE ROSCOE IF YOU ARE IN A MULTIPLE STORY BUILDING...GO TO A SMALmL INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS!
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, 8:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 46 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.