Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 20, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 25, 2000, 7:09 PM CDT for Renville County, Minnesota. It was in force for 36 min. 2 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, 7:09 PM CDT (00:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2000, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Renville County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:08 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, 7:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Hector, MN | |
| Jul 25, 7:49 PM CDT | Hail 1.5 | Fairfax, 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 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
592 WFUS53 KMPX 260009 TORMSP MNC129-260045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 709 PM CDT TUE JUL 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RENVILLE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 709 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OLIVIA...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... OLIVIA HECTOR BUFFALO LAKE BIRD ISLAND GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR THIS REPLACES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM CDT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 7:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Benton, Mille Lacs | 44 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 |
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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.