Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 241
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 7, 2000, 9:00 PM CDT for 46 counties in Minnesota; 7 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 7, 2000, 9:00 PM CDT (02:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2000, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 53 counties
Anoka County, MN, Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Carver County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Chisago County, MN, Cottonwood County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Dodge County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Fillmore County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Jackson County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, Martin County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Mower County, MN, Murray County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Nobles County, MN, Olmsted County, MN, Pipestone County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Rice County, MN, Rock County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Steele County, MN, Swift County, MN, Wabasha County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Washington County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Winona County, MN, Wright County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN, Barron County, WI, Buffalo County, WI, Dunn County, WI, Pepin County, WI, Pierce County, WI, Polk County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:02 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.
Warnings issued inside it
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 10:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Meeker, Stearns | 46 min |
| May 7, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wright | 60 min |
| May 7, 10:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Wright | 57 min |
| May 7, 10:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lyon | 25 min |
| May 7, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Sherburne | 47 min |
| May 8, 1:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Sibley | 52 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 7:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dane, Green, Iowa, Jefferson, Kenosha, Lafayette and 5 more | 5 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.