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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Twin Cities, MN

July 25, 2000Redwood County, Renville County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 25, 2000, 6:17 PM CDT for Redwood County, Renville County, Minnesota. It was in force for 28 min. 3 reports 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 25, 2000, 6:17 PM CDT (23:17 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 2000, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Jul 25, 6:30 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Minnesota Falls, MN
Jul 25, 6:36 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Sacred Heart, MN
Jul 25, 6:45 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Renville, MN

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 25, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 123 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 158 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -126 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 797 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -84 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.

991 
WFUS53 KMPX 252317
TORMSP
MNC127-129-252345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
617 PM CDT TUE JUL 25 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  REDWOOD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA
  RENVILLE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 617 PM CDT THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF SACRED
  HEART...OR ABOUT 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GRANITE FALLS...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 55 MPH. AT TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND IN BELLEVUE.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...
  SACRED HEART
  RENVILLE
  OLIVIA
  DANUBE

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

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 25, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Morrison	51 min
Jul 25, 3:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Benton, Mille Lacs	56 min
Jul 25, 3:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Kanabec, Mille Lacs	42 min
Jul 25, 4:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Douglas	54 min
Jul 25, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kanabec, Mille Lacs	45 min
Jul 25, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Pope, Stearns	53 min
Jul 25, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Todd	53 min
Jul 25, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Swift	63 min
Jul 25, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Isanti	37 min
Jul 25, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Pope, Stearns	61 min
Jul 25, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chisago	56 min
Jul 25, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Morrison, Stearns, Todd	45 min
Jul 25, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Stearns	54 min
Jul 25, 6:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Benton, Stearns	27 min
Jul 25, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi, Meeker	52 min
Jul 25, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Renville	44 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.