Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 619
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 25, 2000, 5:15 PM CDT for 28 counties in Minnesota; Minnehaha County, Moody County, South Dakota. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 25, 2000, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 30 counties
Anoka County, MN, Brown County, MN, Carver County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Cottonwood County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Jackson County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Murray County, MN, Nicollet 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, Watonwan County, MN, Wright County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN, Minnehaha County, SD, Moody County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
23 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Isanti | 37 min |
| Jul 25, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope, Stearns | 61 min |
| Jul 25, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison, Stearns, Todd | 45 min |
| Jul 25, 6:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Redwood, Renville | 28 min |
| Jul 25, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Lyon | 42 min |
| Jul 25, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 54 min |
| Jul 25, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Lyon | 48 min |
| Jul 25, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Pipestone | 47 min |
| Jul 25, 6:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Benton, Stearns | 27 min |
| Jul 25, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker | 52 min |
| Jul 25, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Renville | 44 min |
| Jul 25, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Renville | 36 min |
| Jul 25, 7:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Lyon | 47 min |
| Jul 25, 7:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Murray | 47 min |
| Jul 25, 7:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | McLeod, Renville, Sibley | 46 min |
| Jul 25, 7:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Carver, Wright | 49 min |
| Jul 25, 8:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Nobles | 33 min |
| Jul 25, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Nicollet, Sibley | 47 min |
| Jul 25, 8:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 50 min |
| Jul 25, 8:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Nobles | 51 min |
| Jul 25, 8:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Nicollet | 67 min |
| Jul 25, 9:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 32 min |
| Jul 25, 9:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Nobles | 46 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 158 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 797 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Benton, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Itasca and 8 more | 7 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.