Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at May 7, 2000, 9:08 PM CDT for Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. It was in force for 37 min. 11 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
- May 7, 2000, 9:08 PM CDT (02:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2000, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kandiyohi County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:07 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 9:10 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Roseland, MN | Eight horses killed when barn hit by tornado. |
| May 7, 9:10 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Prinsburg, MN | Major damage incurred to houses and other property. |
| May 7, 9:10 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Blomkest, MN | |
| May 7, 9:10 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 75 E | Prinsburg, MN | Scattered trees and sheds down, a few barns down. The damage originated from a downburst which was 5 miles long and 3 miles wide. It covered a portion of northern Renville and a portion of southern Kandiyohi county. The swath of of wind damage in Kandiyohi cou |
| May 7, 9:15 PM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Blomkest, MN | |
| May 7, 9:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50.5 M | Willmar Arpt, MN | |
| May 7, 9:23 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Lake Lillian, MN | |
| May 7, 9:25 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Lake Lillian, MN | Two 70 foot pine trees toppled. |
| May 7, 9:35 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Lake Lillian, MN | Barn down, house pushed slightly off its foundation, numerous trees down, numerous home windows damaged. |
| May 7, 9:35 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Lake Lillian, MN | |
| May 7, 9:45 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Atwater, MN | Power lines down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 998 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1468 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 6.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KMPX 080209 TORMSP MNC067-080245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 908 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... KANDIYOHI COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 908 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 4 MILES EAST OF PRINSBURG...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF OLIVIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... PRINSBURG LAKE LILLIAN KANDIYOHI BLOMKEST ROSELAND 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 27 min |
| May 7, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine | 46 min |
| May 7, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Renville | 50 min |
| May 7, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker | 48 min |
| May 7, 9:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Meeker | 31 min |
| May 7, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Isanti, Mille Lacs | 48 min |
| May 7, 10:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Meeker, Stearns | 46 min |
| May 7, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wright | 60 min |
| May 7, 10:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Wright | 57 min |
| May 7, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Sherburne | 47 min |
| May 7, 11:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 51 min |
| May 8, 1:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Sibley | 52 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.