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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Twin Cities, MN

July 7, 2000Douglas County, Pope County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 7, 2000, 7:33 PM CDT for Douglas County, Pope County, Minnesota. It was in force for 42 min. 6 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 7, 2000, 7:33 PM CDT (00:33 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 2000, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Douglas County, MN, Pope County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 179 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:34 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 7, 7:40 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Kensington, MN
Jul 7, 7:45 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Kensington, MN	Trees felled.
Jul 7, 7:50 PM CDT	Hail 1.25	Kensington, MN
Jul 7, 7:52 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Farwell, MN
Jul 7, 7:58 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Lowry, MN	Touchdown occurred over open field. A few large trees reported down across area.
Jul 7, 8:22 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Long Beach, MN	Touchdown occurred briefly on the northwest shore of Lake Minnewaska, then moved onto the lake and dissipated. No damage reported.

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 7, 6:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 176 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: 2326 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 701 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 316 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 494 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 5.5
Supercell composite: 32.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

871 
WFUS53 KMPX 080033
TORMSP
MNC041-121-080115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
733 PM CDT FRI JUL 7 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN DOUGLAS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  NORTHERN POPE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 733 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A   
  POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST WEST OF KENSINGTON...OR ABOUT 16 MILES       
  NORTHEAST OF MORRIS...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...
  KENSINGTON
  FARWELL
  LOWRY

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 7, 8:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Pope	52 min
Jul 7, 8:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Stearns	52 min
Jul 7, 8:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi	46 min
Jul 7, 9:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Stearns	30 min
Jul 7, 11:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota	46 min
Jul 8, 12:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Hennepin, Ramsey	58 min
Jul 8, 12:18 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey	3 hr
Jul 8, 12:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota	63 min
Jul 8, 1:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota	63 min
Jul 8, 2:50 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Dakota	2 hr

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.