Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 572
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 11, 2000, 4:30 PM CDT for Lyon County, Osceola County, Iowa; 30 counties in Minnesota; 6 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 11, 2000, 4:30 PM CDT (21:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 38 counties
Lyon County, IA, Osceola County, IA, Benton County, MN, Brown County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Cottonwood County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Jackson County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Murray County, MN, Nobles County, MN, Pipestone County, MN, Pope County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Rock County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Swift County, MN, Todd County, MN, Wright County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN, Brookings County, SD, Hutchinson County, SD, Lake County, SD, McCook County, SD, Minnehaha County, SD, Moody County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:32 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.
Warnings issued inside it
19 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stevens, Swift | 56 min |
| Jul 11, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle | 56 min |
| Jul 11, 5:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Brookings | 26 min |
| Jul 11, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lake | 24 min |
| Jul 11, 5:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lake | 27 min |
| Jul 11, 5:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Brookings, Moody | 31 min |
| Jul 11, 6:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lake | 25 min |
| Jul 11, 6:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lake, Moody | 32 min |
| Jul 11, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | McCook | 35 min |
| Jul 11, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 27 min |
| Jul 11, 6:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 34 min |
| Jul 11, 6:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | McCook | 21 min |
| Jul 11, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Douglas, Hutchinson | 29 min |
| Jul 11, 7:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 34 min |
| Jul 11, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Rock | 30 min |
| Jul 11, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 32 min |
| Jul 11, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 23 min |
| Jul 11, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Rock | 30 min |
| Jul 11, 8:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Osceola | 24 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 209 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
- 683 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 957 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 12:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Grant, Otter Tail, Stevens, Traverse, Wilkin | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Dakota, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, 2000Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2000
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.