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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at May 7, 2000, 10:33 PM CDT for Wright County, Minnesota. It was in force for 57 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
- May 7, 2000, 10:33 PM CDT (03:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2000, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wright County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 46 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 080334 TORMSP MNC171-080430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1033 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WRIGHT COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1130 PM CDT * AT 1033 PM CDT 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SOUTH HAVEN...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTHEAST OF LITCHFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... SOUTH HAVEN MAPLE LAKE ANNANDALE HASTY 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, 9:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 37 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, 10:58 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 |
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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.