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Tornado Warning 29, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Aug 7, 2000, 9:34 PM CDT for Martin County, Minnesota. It was in force for 41 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
- Aug 7, 2000, 9:34 PM CDT (02:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2000, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Martin County, MN
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 1134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1449 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 6.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KMPX 080235 TORMSP MNC091-080315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 934 PM CDT MON AUG 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MARTIN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1015 PM CDT * AT 934 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF TRIMONT...OR ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ST JAMES...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... TRIMONT RURAL AREAS OF NORTHWEST MARTIN COUNTY 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown | 41 min |
| Aug 7, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood | 49 min |
| Aug 7, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Martin, Watonwan | 64 min |
| Aug 7, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Nicollet | 61 min |
| Aug 7, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Renville, Sibley | 52 min |
| Aug 7, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod | 62 min |
| Aug 7, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Nicollet | 46 min |
| Aug 7, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Scott | 54 min |
| Aug 7, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wright | 54 min |
| Aug 7, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 64 min |
| Aug 7, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Rice | 62 min |
| Aug 8, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kanabec | 28 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.