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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Twin Cities, MN

July 25, 2000Hennepin County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 25, 2000, 9:13 PM CDT for Hennepin County, Minnesota. It was in force for 32 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, 9:13 PM CDT (02:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 2000, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Whole counties

County Hennepin County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:14 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, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
Jul 25, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 20 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.

632 
WFUS53 KMPX 260213
TORMSP
MNC053-260245-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HENNEPIN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 945 PM CDT

* AT 913 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  POSSIBLE TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PLYMOUTH...OR ABOUT 12 MILES
  WEST OF MINNEAPOLIS...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...
  MINNEAPOLIS
  ST LOUIS PARK
  PLYMOUTH
  THE LAKE MINNETONKA AREA
  MAPLE GROVE
  BROOKLYN PARK

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, 7:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Benton, Mille Lacs	44 min
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, 9:59 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.