Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 658
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 7, 2000, 6:45 PM CDT for 20 counties in Iowa; 47 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 2000, 6:45 PM CDT (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2000, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 67 counties
Buena Vista County, IA, Cerro Gordo County, IA, Cherokee County, IA, Clay County, IA, Dickinson County, IA, Emmet County, IA, Franklin County, IA, Hancock County, IA, Humboldt County, IA, Kossuth County, IA, Lyon County, IA, O'Brien County, IA, Osceola County, IA, Palo Alto County, IA, Plymouth County, IA, Pocahontas County, IA, Sioux County, IA, Winnebago County, IA, Worth County, IA, Wright County, IA, Anoka County, MN, Benton County, MN, Big Stone 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, Freeborn County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Isanti 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, Murray County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Nobles County, MN, Pipestone County, MN, Pope 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, Stearns County, MN, Steele County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Washington County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Wright County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 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
33 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 34 min |
| Aug 7, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Pipestone, Rock | 34 min |
| Aug 7, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | O'Brien, Sioux | 47 min |
| Aug 7, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Pipestone, Rock | 30 min |
| Aug 7, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Murray | 28 min |
| Aug 7, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown | 41 min |
| Aug 7, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 35 min |
| Aug 7, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson | 28 min |
| Aug 7, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood | 49 min |
| Aug 7, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Murray | 17 min |
| Aug 7, 9:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Jackson | 24 min |
| Aug 7, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 35 min |
| Aug 7, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Martin, Watonwan | 64 min |
| Aug 7, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Murray | 31 min |
| Aug 7, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Nicollet | 61 min |
| Aug 7, 9:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Martin | 41 min |
| Aug 7, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Renville, Sibley | 52 min |
| Aug 7, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson | 29 min |
| Aug 7, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Plymouth, Sioux | 33 min |
| Aug 7, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod | 62 min |
| Aug 7, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Nicollet | 46 min |
| Aug 7, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Scott | 54 min |
| Aug 7, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wright | 54 min |
| Aug 7, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Plymouth | 31 min |
| Aug 7, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 64 min |
| Aug 7, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay, O'Brien | 31 min |
| Aug 7, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Rice | 62 min |
| Aug 7, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Sioux | 16 min |
| Aug 7, 11:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Palo Alto | 38 min |
| Aug 7, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Plymouth | 28 min |
| Aug 8, 12:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Worth | 40 min |
| Aug 8, 12:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Plymouth | 27 min |
| Aug 8, 12:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cherokee, Plymouth | 29 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 269 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
- 42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -242 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1640 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Traverse | 6 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.