Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Watches in 2000
Tornado Watch 716
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Aug 28, 2000, 3:00 PM CDT for 28 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 28, 2000, 3:00 PM CDT (20:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 28 counties
Benton County, MN, Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Cottonwood County, MN, Jackson County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle 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, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Rock County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Wright County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
Warnings issued inside it
1 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 33 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 682 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
664 WWUS9 KMKC 281936 SEL6 MKC WW 281931 MNZ000-290100- URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 716 STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 231 PM CDT MON AUG 28 2000 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN MINNESOTA EFFECTIVE THIS MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 300 PM UNTIL 800 PM CDT. TORNADOES...HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 80 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 80 STATUTE MILES NORTH AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 65 MILES WEST OF REDWOOD FALLS MINNESOTA TO 55 MILES EAST OF REDWOOD FALLS MINNESOTA. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. DISCUSSION...STRONG COLD FRONT MOVING INTO WRN MN WHERE AIRMASS HAS BECOME QUITE UNSTABLE WITH CAPES TO 3500 J/KG. VEERING SHEAR PROFILES COUPLED WITH THE INSTABILITY SUPPORT SUPERCELL DEVELOPMENT ALONG AND AHEAD OF COLD FRONT. AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 2 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND GUSTS TO 70 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 600. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 27030. ...HALES 454,0962 454,0935 432,0935 432,0962
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 5:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beltrami, Clearwater, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen, Marshall 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.