Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 18, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 25, 2000, 6:33 PM CDT for Benton County, Stearns County, Minnesota. It was in force for 27 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 25, 2000, 6:33 PM CDT (23:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Benton County, MN, Stearns County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:37 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 | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 6:35 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Spring Hill, 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, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jul 25, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
994 WFUS53 KMPX 252333 TORMSP MNC009-145-260000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 633 PM CDT TUE JUL 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BENTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA EASTERN STEARNS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 633 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF AVON...OR ABOUT 16 MILES WEST OF ST CLOUD...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... SAUK RAPIDS FOLEY THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA. 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, 6:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Redwood, Renville | 28 min |
| Jul 25, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 54 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.