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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 8, 2000, 9:28 PM CDT for Todd County, Minnesota. It was in force for 47 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
- Jul 8, 2000, 9:28 PM CDT (02:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2000, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Todd County, MN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 9:43 PM CDT | Tornado F2 | Staples, MN | Roofs blown off homes and one business. At least one dozen homes damaged. Numerous large trees down. One minor injury in Staples due to flying glass. Tornado crossed over from Wadena county. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 4:00 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 169 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
- 3971 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1312 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 17.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KMPX 090229 TORMSP MNC153-090315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 928 PM CDT SAT JUL 8 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... TODD COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1015 PM CDT * AT 928 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO TOUCHDOWN IN VERNDALE IN EXTREME SOUTHERN WADENA COUNTY...OR OR ABOUT 7 MILES WEST OF STAPLES...MOVING EAST TO SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... STAPLES PHILBROOK GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY IN THE WARNED AREA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kanabec | 26 min |
| Jul 8, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Todd | 63 min |
| Jul 8, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 54 min |
| Jul 8, 11:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Morrison, Todd | 5 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.