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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Twin Cities, MN

July 25, 2000Benton County, Mille Lacs County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 25, 2000, 7:01 PM CDT for Benton County, Mille Lacs County, Minnesota. It was in force for 44 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 25, 2000, 7:01 PM CDT (00:01 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 2000, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Benton County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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

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

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 109 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: 1668 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1176 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 5.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

822 
WFUS53 KMPX 260001
TORMSP
MNC009-095-260045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
701 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
  SOUTHRN MILLE LACS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 701 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  POSSIBLE TORNADO 3 MILES WEST OF FOLEY...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF ST
  CLOUD...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...
  RONNEBY
  PRINCETON
  PEASE
  MILACA
  GILMAN
  FORESTON
  FOLEY

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, 7:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Renville	36 min
Jul 25, 7:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	McLeod, Renville, Sibley	46 min
Jul 25, 7:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Carver, Wright	49 min
Jul 25, 8:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Nicollet, Sibley	47 min
Jul 25, 8:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Hennepin	50 min
Jul 25, 8:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Brown, Nicollet	67 min
Jul 25, 9:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Hennepin	32 min
Jul 25, 9:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Blue Earth	31 min
Jul 25, 10:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Watonwan	67 min
Jul 25, 11:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Faribault	50 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.